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14 may 2011 - cape pelagic trip |
Trevor was once again a guide on a ZEST for BIRDS pelagic trip today and Margaret also joined the trip. The sea was flat and there was virtually not a breath of wind the entire day, but it also meant that we were plagued with thick mist and totally grey skies for most of the day. Unfortunately, we were also not able to locate a trawler during the day, so the numbers of birds were right down. Nothing out of the ordinary was seen, but there were still a handful of late summer migrants around (Cory's Shearwater, European Storm Petrel and Arctic Tern) and we also had our first Pintado Petrels of the winter season. |
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Wilson's Storm Petrel |
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Great Shearwater |
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Black-browed Albatross |
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Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross |
Full list of species recorded on the pelagic trip | |
Links to pages with additional photos highlighted in red | |
Common Name | Scientific Name |
Birds - 25 species | |
African Penguin | Spheniscus demersus |
Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris |
Shy Albatross | Thalassarche cauta |
Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos |
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche carteri |
Northern Giant Petrel | Macronectes halli |
Pintado Petrel | Daption capense |
White-chinned Petrel | Procellaria aequinoctialis |
Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea |
Sooty Shearwater | Puffinus griseus |
Great Shearwater | Puffinus gravis |
Wilson's Storm Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus |
European Storm Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus |
Cape Gannet | Morus capensis |
Crowned Cormorant | Microcarbo coronatus |
Bank Cormorant | Phalacrocorax neglectus |
Cape Cormorant | Phalacrocorax capensis |
White-breasted Cormorant | Phalacrocorax lucidus |
Grey-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus |
Hartlaub's Gull | Chroicocephalus hartlaubii |
Kelp Gull | Larus dominicanus |
Swift Tern | Thalasseus bergii |
Common Tern | Sterna hirundo |
Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea |
Subantarctic Skua | Catharacta antarctica |
Mammals - 2 species | |
Cape Fur Seal | Arctocephalus pusillus |
Bryde's Whale | Balaenoptera edeni |