Name a Bird You've Seen 2 (6 Viewers)

[Arbu]

8556 Antarctic Tern. Occurs in South Georgia

 

[dandsblair]

8557 Antarctic Petrel

 

[Arbu]

8558 Antarctic Prion

 

[dandsblair]

8559 Blue Petrel

On same plate (11) as Prions in Hadoram Shirihai guide

 

[Arbu]

8560 Barau's Petrel

Two things to remember when going out on a boat on the sea:
1. Even if going scuba diving, take a camera for above water in case there's a species of petrel that you will never see again flying about when you finish the dive. Forgetting this is why I have no photo of Barau's Petrel.
2. Don't assume that birds will be the only thing to photograph and so think you just need a powerful lens. There might also be dolphins bow-riding, and to photograph them you need a fairly wide angle lens.

 

[dandsblair]

8561 South Georgia Diving Petrel

 

[Jacana]

This is the longest chain of species in the same family that we've had in quite a while!

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

It’s only pentane, not even octane petrel yet!

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

It’s only pentane, not even octane petrel yet!

Oooh. Chemistry joke. Love it! (I was a ChemE).

 

[Arbu]

8562 Whiskered Auklet. If you reflect the location of South Georgia across the whole of the Americas you get to the Aleutian Islands and a bird which is probably an example of parallel evolution with the diving-petrel.

 

[dandsblair]

I'll stick to Petrels. Due south of the Aleutian Islands we had
8563 Hawaiian Petrel

 

[Arbu]

8564 Persian Shearwater

 

[dandsblair]

8565 Sub-antarctic Shearwater

 

[Arbu]

8566 Broad-billed Prion

 

[dandsblair]

8567 Snow Petrel

 

[Arbu]

8568 Bali Myna. Am I allowed this? It was outside of the cage.

 

[dandsblair]

8568 Bali Myna. Am I allowed this? It was outside of the cage.

On same day as this Bali Myna we saw
8569 Javan Banded Pitta one of my favourite birds

 

[johnallcock]

I was struggling to get a link to all the petrels, but I can get back into this now.
8570. Javan Blue Robin

That's broken quite a long run from Arbu and dandsblair!

 

[Arbu]

8571 Javan Whistling Thrush

 

[dandsblair]

8572 Usambara Thrush