Vincent Legrand and I have recently published two article on our decade long project about Pelagic birding on the Azores .
The first article published in Dutch Birding 47 (1) titled 'Identication of Monteiro's Storm Petrel at sea' looks at the field identification of this endemic cryptic species which focuses primarily on moult timing and subtle structural features compared to the sympatric 'Grant's Storm Petrel'. The article is now available on line here: https://www.researchgate.net/.../391074748_Identification...
The second article published in Dutch Birding 47 (2) is a review of all the seabird records from our pelagic trips between 2011 and 2022 and details some of the most interesting discoveries including mutiple near-annual records of Swinhoe's Storm Petrel, two records of Zino's Petrel, mutiple Wilson's Storm Petrel, Deserta's Petrel, Brown Booby, Sooty Tern and South Polar Skua in addition to the local Azores specialities seabirds such as Barolo Shearwater, Bulwer's Petrel and Monteiro's and Grant's Storm Petrel. This article is available on line here:
Thanks to all the trip participants involved in this project particularly for co-founders Richard Bonser and Simon Buckell and thanks to Robert Flood, Peter Adriaens and Yoav Perlman for info and reviewing the articles.
If anyone is interested in joining the 2025 Azores Pelagic in early September please PM or email me: littleoakgroup@btinternet.com
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