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[Murrelet] Japanese and Ancient Murrelet

Japanese and Ancient Murrelet

21 April 2012 - Southern Waters

Thanks John & Jemi for organizing this trip and John for spotting the Japanese Murrelet!

Japanese Murrelet





Ancient Murrelet


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Wow! Great photos of Japanese and Ancient Murrelets!

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Great Find! Congrad.

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Some photos from today.

It was nice to hear the Ancient Murrelets calling to each other.

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Great find ! Great shots ! Congratulations~~~

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Excellent shots, John. Thanks for sharing!

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Amazing records. BRAVO !!!


PWMK

[ Last edited by wleepoin at 22/04/2012 06:12 ]

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Good photos and fruitful trip. I wish I was there.

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Great record.

It seems this Japanese Murrelet has the same flight feather problem (see the third photo above) that the First Record in 2007 had, only in an earlier stage - see photos by Tony on this thread

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/view ... ;highlight=murrelet

I wonder what is going on here?

Geoff

[ Last edited by wgeoff at 22/04/2012 20:13 ]

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Yes, this bird did have noticeable wear on the primaries. I think we saw this bird flying. The Murrelet had drifted behind us and when we went to the back of the boat to look for it we saw a Murrelet in flight. I couldn't be totally sure it was the same bird and I didn't get a photo of it flying. Shortly afterwards we did see two Ancient Murrelets so it is possible the flying bird wasn't the Japanese.

I don't really know why there was so much feather wear either but I think there has been considerable feather wear on some of our other rarities. Red-footed Booby and Glaucous-winged Gull come to mind.

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Thanks John & Jemi for arranging this boat trip. It was really wonderful and amazing to see two kinds of murrelet in one day.

Japanese Murrelet




Ancient Murrelet








[ Last edited by kkitty at 22/04/2012 22:49 ]

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Congratulate all of you!Excellent photos!!
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Thanks to John & Jemi for organizing this trip.

Japanese Murrelet 冠海雀










Ancient Murrelet 扁嘴海雀











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Murrelet photos....

Great shots, Kitty and Isaac !
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Here's the flying bird from Saturday. It looks more like an Ancient Murrelet to me. And since the two we saw later stuck together, and the other one flew were badly, I don't think this bird was either of those, so probably a third one.

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Interesting... so we didn't see the Japanese Murrelet fly. Maybe it couldn't fly.

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A bit closer but blur look.  Feather damage??

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Add an animation of the Ancient Murrelet flapping its wings.

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