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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf: Petrels Night and Day: A Sound Approach
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf. Recommended books and equipment for the traveling birder brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Petrels Night and Day: A Sound Approach. Very once in a while there comes a book that breaks the mold, radically changing our expectations of what a good bird book should be. Petrels night and day: A Sound Approach guide. Is one such book. As a bird guide, PNAD. For instance, can look quite plain faced in very direct sunlight...
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Pickings From The Chum Slick: Sowerby's Beaked Whales and very early Audubon's Shearwaters off New York (24 June 2012)
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Pickings From The Chum Slick. Tasty morsels of pelagic birding news brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Saturday, June 30, 2012. Sowerby's Beaked Whales and very early Audubon's Shearwaters off New York (24 June 2012). Uring an offshore fishing trip last Sunday (24 June 2012), John Shemilt, Derek Rogers and I observed a pod of at least 7 SOWERBY'S BEAKED WHALES. In the same general area we observed three separate pods of Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins. And 3 Sperm Whales.
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf: Albatross: Their world, their ways
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf. Recommended books and equipment for the traveling birder brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Albatross: Their world, their ways. To be perfectly honest, I'm not entirely blown away by some of the photographs. The portrait shots are often taken from a low angle with the brightly illuminated bird set against dark brooding clouds. Somehow these seem overly contrived to me. I appreciate the effort to captur...The book ...
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf: Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf. Recommended books and equipment for the traveling birder brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Saturday, April 5, 2008. Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago. N a recent trip to the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago I had the pleasure of extensively testing this new field guide by Martyn Kenefick (a Briton now resident in Trinidad) and co-authors Robin Restall and Floyd Hayes. 2003 Princeton University Press) by Herbert Raffael...
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Pickings From The Chum Slick: In albatrosses, two moms can be better than one.
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Pickings From The Chum Slick. Tasty morsels of pelagic birding news brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Friday, July 18, 2008. In albatrosses, two moms can be better than one. A recent paper by Lindsay Young (University of Hawaii) and colleagues reveals an interesting example of cooperative behavior and prompts the question of how often this occurs in seabirds where males and females show little difference in appearance. Here is the abstract:. Explore My Other Blogs. Magen...
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Pickings From The Chum Slick: Is that dinner I can smell? - Olfaction plays major role in albatross foraging
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Pickings From The Chum Slick. Tasty morsels of pelagic birding news brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Is that dinner I can smell? Olfaction plays major role in albatross foraging. High-resolution global positioning system (GPS) devices provide a unique tool to study the foraging techniques of seabirds. A new study by Gabrielle Nevitt (University of California at Davis) and colleagues (Nevitt et al. 2008) suggests that Wandering Albatrosses. Taken o...
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Pickings From The Chum Slick: Announcement: Extreme Gadfly Petrel Expeditions
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Pickings From The Chum Slick. Tasty morsels of pelagic birding news brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Announcement: Extreme Gadfly Petrel Expeditions. The following challenging pelagic expeditions are being organised as part of the on-going Tubenoses Project. Pterodroma becki in 2007 in the Bismarck archipelago (Shirihai 2008), and the first pelagic observations of Zino’s Petrel. 1) Search for the Jamaican Petrel (presumed extinct) off Jamaica:.
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Pickings From The Chum Slick: Black-capped Petrel returns to the Azores?
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Pickings From The Chum Slick. Tasty morsels of pelagic birding news brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Saturday, May 23, 2009. Black-capped Petrel returns to the Azores? N 22 May 2009, a Black-capped Petrel. Was photographed at sea by João Quaresma. Some 5-6 miles south of Queimada, Pico. Interestingly, the first record for the archipelago was photographed off Graciosa on 26 May 2007. Photos of both birds are posted on the Birding Azores. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf: Albatrosses and petrels across the world.
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf. Recommended books and equipment for the traveling birder brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Saturday, May 24, 2008. Albatrosses and petrels across the world. Ere's a book I find myself turning to again and again. Every time I need to look up some salient detail about the tubenoses (albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels and diving-petrels) this is my first stop. The author Michael Brooke. The bottom line is that for the serious sea...
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf: A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife - Second Edition
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The OceanWanderers Book Shelf. Recommended books and equipment for the traveling birder brought to you by OceanWanderers.com, the web site of Angus Wilson. Sunday, April 6, 2008. A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife - Second Edition. Although I haven't seen a copy yet, it is exciting to learn that the second edition of this outstanding guide has just been released by A&C Black. And Princeton University Press. You can see my brief overview of the first edition on OceanWanderers.com. Read My Other Blogs.