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ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:41 pm
by Neil Fitzgerald
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Another challenge via Brent's lens.
Answers for this challenge are due by replying to this topic by midnight (NZDT) on Sunday 14 November 2010.
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Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:09 pm
by simon.fordham
Buller's Albatross
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:30 pm
by tim
Going to go with Salvin's Albatross, possible photo Brent took down in Kaikoura
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:09 pm
by ledzep
Salvin's Albatross/Mollymawk.
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:14 am
by Michael Turner
Mollymawk with grey head and neck, yellow tip and top of beak; appears to have white cap just peaking over the top of the wing. I'd go with Buller's.
Michael Turner
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:42 am
by Peter Frost
Greetings from Malawi, courtesy of a R-E-A-L-L-Y S-L-O-W Internet connection (I'm worried the competition will close before this message gets posted):
Salvin's Mollymawk
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 7:32 pm
by Shane McPherson
tricky tricky,
bullers or salvins? I choose...
salvins albatross
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 8:05 am
by David J.K.
Bullers Mollymawk
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 8:44 pm
by Byrd
well its an albatross, and obviously a Thalassarche rather than Diomedea. It has a thin black edge to the underwings which rules out the black-broweds and grey-headed. The head is pale grey with a white crown which I guess means either Salvin's or southern Buller's. I think Salvin's has less white on the underwing than the southern Buller's (?), and although the bill is mostly hidden it does look more like that of a Salvin's, so....
answer: Salvin's mollymawk (Thalassarche salvini)
Re: ID Challenge #5 - closes 14 November 2010
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 9:57 pm
by TonyWilson
Salvin's albatross.
Cheers,
Tony.