ID Challenge #9 - closes 14 March 2011

[Neil Fitzgerald]

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Short month and short of ideas, so another sound I'm sorry

Answers for this challenge are due by replying to this topic by midnight (NZDT) on Monday 14 March 2011.

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The winner of the 2010-2011 ID Quiz will get one free place on a scheduled Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ pelagic trip, AND each person who enters this challenge goes into the draw to win a pair of Nikon Travelite V 8x25CF binoculars just for having a go, thanks to Photo & Video International (quake damaged but staff all ok).

[simon.fordham]

common diving petrel

[David Riddell]

Sure I've heard that on National Radio... Common Diving Petrel?

[Graham Saunders]

Common Diving Petrel

[Shane McPherson]

Small pelagic species is the first impression...
a diving petrel, now do i have to get the species right?
northern, southern, sub-antarctic, or south georgian diving-petrel?
knowing the location would help... shooting for

Northern diving petrel.

[ledzep]

No idea on this one - Sooty Shearwater?

[Byrd]

well I have no clue and not much time due to issues in Chch at the moment, so I'll just say yellow-eyed penguins crooning together. I know it'll be wrong,but never mind

[philbattley]

Diving Petrel. Decision based on (a) a quick look in HANZAB, (b) the fact the birds sound small (using what may be camera clicks in the background for reference...) and (c) the idea that if Neil recorded this himself, then it's most likely to be a bird breeding off Coromandel or other northern shores. But as I have never heard thisparticular type of Kuaka, I confess this is but a partially- educated guess.

Phil

[Richard Schofield]

Common Diving Petrel

[TonyWilson]

Sounds like Grey-faced Petrel although it would be nice to find a recording to compare!