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    Possible (Manx) Shearwater? (September 2021, Dutch coast)

    Two years ago when watching seabirds I saw this distant bird. Location Maasvlakte II, south of Rotterdam. Unfortunately it flew way from me. Although I was able to grab the camera, the angle is bad and the images are blurry and small as well. It might have been a Shearwater? Could it still be...
  2. Cory 's shearwater

    Cory 's shearwater

    Is a large shearwater in the seabird family Proceliariidae
    • juancar dieguez
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    • bird calonectris borealis madeira shearwater
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  3. Great shearwater

    Great shearwater

    • juancar dieguez
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    • ardenna gravis bird great shearwater shearwater spain
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  4. Azan Khan

    Shearwater ID request Pakistan

    Hi. A friend sent this Shearwater photo from his old gallery. It was recorded in 2010 15 Km off the coast of Karachi in open sea. Could this be Persian Shearwater or Wedge-tailed Shearwater? Or anything else? In any case, it would be the first photo-documentation of any Shearwater from Pakistan...
  5. Short-tailed Shearwater

    Short-tailed Shearwater

    A small number of this species migrate through the Singapore Straits from Southern Australia to winter in the Northern Pacific. This individual was shot taking off after taking a rest by floating on the water surface.
    • SeeToh
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    • shearwater
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  6. Short-tailed Shearwater

    Short-tailed Shearwater

    Adult. Rare passage migrant to Singapore.
    • SeeToh
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    • shearwater
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  7. Short-tailed Shearwater

    Short-tailed Shearwater

    Adult. Rare passage migrant to Singapore.
    • SeeToh
    • Media item
    • shearwater
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  8. Short-tailed Shearwater

    Short-tailed Shearwater

    Adult. Rare passage migrant through the Straits of Singapore
    • SeeToh
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    • shearwater
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  9. Flesh-footed Shearwater

    Flesh-footed Shearwater

    Also known as a Mutton Bird
    • Tiger1
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    • shearwater
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  10. Cory's shearwater

    Cory's shearwater

    Shearwater from Gomera to Tenerife ferry
    • dandsblair
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    • shearwater
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  11. Manx Shearwaters over a stormy sea, Cornwall, UK.

    Manx Shearwaters over a stormy sea, Cornwall, UK.

    On bright stormy days i head down to Pendeen, low down on the cliff to photo seabirds as they pass close by. These two Manx Shearwaters were amongst the hundreds of birds passing this day. Lightly sharpened and cropped in Photoshop.
    • tonymills
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    • bird cornwall flight manx rough stormy sea seabird shearwater storm uk.
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Kowa Competition (Closed)
  12. Wedge-tailed Shearwater chick

    Wedge-tailed Shearwater chick

    Rabbit Island (a small island in the bay at Lord Howe Island) had many burrows of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, and adults kept lading in the long grass. This chick was stumbling around near one of the burrows.
    • ptilinopus
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    • ardenna pacifica shearwater wedge-tailed
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  13. Flesh-footed Shearwater

    Flesh-footed Shearwater

    Adult Flesh-footed Shearwater on grass in kentia palm grove on nw Lord Howe Island near burrows. At night at the communal burrows ground they make a fearful racket!
    • ptilinopus
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    • flesh-footed shearwater
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  14. Wedge-tailed Shearwater -DB

    Wedge-tailed Shearwater -DB

    Adult Wedge-tailed Shearwater on grassy island slope having just landed near known burrows.
    • ptilinopus
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    • ardenna pacifica shearwater wedge-tailed
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  15. Great Shearwater

    Great Shearwater

    Part of bird group flocking around a longline fishing vessel
    • nkgray
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    • ardenna gravis flight shearwater
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Africa
  16. Flesh-footed Shearwater

    Flesh-footed Shearwater

    Thought that this shot looked rather different.
    • Tom Tarrant
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    • procellarid shearwater tubenose
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  17. Greater shearwater in flight

    Greater shearwater in flight

    Greater shearwater in flight. Re-posted after it disappeared last week.
    • rb_stern
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    • shearwater
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: North America
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