Sunday 7 April 2013

a straggler and a new one....

the straggler
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02.08.2011 ENR
04.08.2012 Sanda Island, Kintyre, Argyll & Bute
368 days 373km 192deg

the new
a new species of Storm-Petrel. Discovered by Seamus Enright and Michael O'Keefe off the coast of Chile in 2009 it has just been declared a new species. DNA samples and feathers have just been 'recovered' from birds recently caught and, once completed, the next step will be to find out more about these birds.
See Brisitish Birds April 2013 p187