White-naped Petrel off Kaikoura

[sav]

Hi all,

Gaz Melville photographed a White-naped Petrel from the Albatross Encounters boat today. Hopefully the pics will be on their Facebook page soon.

The species is extremely rare off the NZ mainland, and I think there might be only one other South Island record (and that was off Stewart).

What else is out there?

cheers

[Davidthomas]

Argh!!!! Here’s hoping we get across on the ferry tomorrow, so will post a report of what I see if we do. But it’s looking very rough out there.

What a fantastic report, good old Gaz always seems to find the odd brilliant bird. I guess it helps being out there all the time!

[Jan]

We found a beach-wrecked one at Kairaki beach near the mouth of the Waimakariri many years ago. I think Sco had it as a Juan Fernandez Petrel but he may have changed his mind by now? I can look up the date if anyone's interested.