great shearwater (ardenna gravis), ireland
great shearwaters (ardenna gravis), sooty shearwaters (ardenna grisea), european herring gulls (larus argentatus) and great black-backed gulls (larus marinus) scavenging from a trawler, ireland
#procellariiformes#procellariidae#ardenna#great shearwater#sooty shearwater#charadriiformes#laridae#larus#herring gull#european herring gull#great black backed gull#seabirds#tubenose#gulls#birds#birdwatching#bird photography#display flight#BOOO TRAWLERS but there were SO MANY BIRDS#this video barely shows half of it tbh#splashes are dolphins btw
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23 avril 2023, Golfe du Lion
Et voici un second puffin, lui aussi récemment élevé au rang d'espèce (il a été séparé du puffin cendré au début des années 2010).
Le puffin de Scopoli écume l'Atlantique sud l'hiver et passe la saison de nidification en Méditéranée.
great shearwaters (ardenna gravis) and sooty shearwaters (ardenna grisea), ireland
#procellariiformes#procellariidae#ardenna#great shearwater#sooty shearwater#seabirds#tubenose#birds#birdwatching#bird photography#display flight#got my first land-based photos/videos of great shearwaters today!!#they were the closest to land i've ever seen them at this spot#there was very thick drizzle so that might've pushed them in
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23 avril 2023, Golfe du Lion
Divers décollages de Puffin de Scopoli
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A white chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) in Iquique, Chile
by Paul Ellis
sooty shearwater (ardenna grisea), ireland
great shearwater (ardenna gravis), going in for a landing, ireland
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Fulmar Flypast, Mull, Scotland
I've photographed fulmars in Ireland before but on a recent puffin-watching expedition to Scotland I had the chance, briefly to see another.
Young fulmars spend five years fully at sea, coming back to land to choose a colony after that but even then they won't breed for another few years. They can live for over forty years.
In this image you can see the tube-nose from which the tubenose family get their name, the birds possess a gland which helps to process, store then eject saline through the tube - salty water collected when diving for fish in the north Atlantic.
Fulmar comes from Norse, it means foul gull and relates to the stinking stomach oil that the bird regurgitates in order to deter threats. It matts the feathers of other birds and it covers other animals (humans too) with the stinky non-soluble fluid that can destroy clothes.
You've been warned - keep your distance! Enjoy these majestic fliers from afar.
Source: panoramicireland.com
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BOTD: Cook's Petrel
Photo: James Bailey
"Breeding on islands around New Zealand, this petrel ranges over vast distances in the Pacific Ocean. Since the late 1970s, research cruises have revealed that Cook's Petrel occurs regularly off our west coast -- but so far offshore that it is seldom seen on ordinary one-day birding boat trips, let alone from shore."
great shearwater (ardenna gravis), joined by a sooty shearwater (ardenna grisea), ireland
#procellariiformes#procellariidae#ardenna#great shearwater#sooty shearwater#tubenose#seabirds#birds#bird photography#birdwatching#display flight#sorry for shakiness we were going Very Fast#the shearwaters were well able to keep up with us though. they'd even overtake us. they can be very quick!!#also a bit after the sooty takes off you can see a common dolphin jump in the background
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BOTD: Bermuda Petrel
Photo: Miguel A Mejias, PhD.
"Endangered Atlantic Ocean seabird that nests on Bermuda and disperses widely when not breeding. When not nesting, it can only be seen far from land, where it often flies in swooping arcs with little flapping. Locally known as 'Cahow', it very nearly went extinct in the mid-twentieth century, but was returned from the brink largely due to the heroic efforts of local conservationists."
- eBird
northern fulmar (fulmarus glacialis), chick on nest, ireland
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[2947/11080] Desertas petrel - Pterodroma deserta
Note: Clements considers this bird to be a subspecies of Fea's petrel, P. feae.
Order: Procellariiformes (tubenoses) Family: Procellariidae (petrels, prions and shearwaters) Genus: Pterodroma (gadfly petrels)
Photo credit: Kate Sutherland via Macaulay Library
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Part of a whole flock of sooty shearwaters in the Beagle Channel