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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

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Ancient Murrelet

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Wow! Great photos of Japanese and Ancient Murrelets!

Great Find! Congrad.

Murrelets

Some photos from today.

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

Great find ! Great shots ! Congratulations~~~3551d5f02ecd445 3551em12445

Excellent shots, John. Thanks for sharing!

Amazing records. BRAVO !!!

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PWMK

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

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

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

[url]http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/viewthread.php?tid=2340&highlight=murrelet[/url]

I wonder what is going on here?

Geoff

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

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.

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
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Ancient Murrelet
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Congratulate all of you!Excellent photos!!

Thanks to John & Jemi for organizing this trip.

Japanese Murrelet 冠海雀

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Ancient Murrelet 扁嘴海雀

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Murrelet photos....

Great shots, Kitty and Isaac !

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.

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

[[i] Last edited by brendank at 23/04/2012 21:16 [/i]]

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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