Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand 2022
- Peter Frost
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Re: Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand 2022
Thanks Colin. Tino pai.
- Peter Frost
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Re: Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand 2022
Tēnā koe Colin,
Following your earlier encouragement of people with suggested revisions to the the new 2022 Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand to write to [url]checklist@birdsnz.org.nz[/url] with the details, I was on the point of doing so when a bit of background digging suggested the need to pose my query more widely, hence the return to this thread.
It concerns Bulwer's Petrel. The new checklist says “One record from the New Zealand region: a dead bird on Te Horo Beach, Horowhenua, Jan. 1998 (Palma 1999; G. Taylor 2004).” (the same as in the 2010 checklist). Wasn’t a beach-wrecked Bulwer’s Petrel picked up on New Brighton Beach on 22 January 2013 (see https://www.birdingnz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3283#p14386)? There is a picture of someone holding the bird, which subsequently died (in which case there should be a specimen somewhere, presumably in the Canterbury Museum). Unfortunately the photo is too small for one to be able to see the species' distinctive bill, but its small size and wedge-shaped tail looked distinctive enough. There is no UBR for this specimen (and so no RAP assessment of it), not is the occurrence listed in New Zealand Birds Online. The thread on the species on this site seems to have gone cold. I wonder what happened to the specimen, and whether its identity was fully resolved? Perhaps it was initially misidentified and subsequently named as something else. Or perhaps it has been overlooked? Can anyone throw some light on it?
Many thanks,
Peter
Following your earlier encouragement of people with suggested revisions to the the new 2022 Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand to write to [url]checklist@birdsnz.org.nz[/url] with the details, I was on the point of doing so when a bit of background digging suggested the need to pose my query more widely, hence the return to this thread.
It concerns Bulwer's Petrel. The new checklist says “One record from the New Zealand region: a dead bird on Te Horo Beach, Horowhenua, Jan. 1998 (Palma 1999; G. Taylor 2004).” (the same as in the 2010 checklist). Wasn’t a beach-wrecked Bulwer’s Petrel picked up on New Brighton Beach on 22 January 2013 (see https://www.birdingnz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3283#p14386)? There is a picture of someone holding the bird, which subsequently died (in which case there should be a specimen somewhere, presumably in the Canterbury Museum). Unfortunately the photo is too small for one to be able to see the species' distinctive bill, but its small size and wedge-shaped tail looked distinctive enough. There is no UBR for this specimen (and so no RAP assessment of it), not is the occurrence listed in New Zealand Birds Online. The thread on the species on this site seems to have gone cold. I wonder what happened to the specimen, and whether its identity was fully resolved? Perhaps it was initially misidentified and subsequently named as something else. Or perhaps it has been overlooked? Can anyone throw some light on it?
Many thanks,
Peter
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Re: Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand 2022
Hi Peter, there certainly was a Bulwers Petrel in chch and it was indeed found alive and taken into care by Jackie Stevenson, a local bird rescue specialist. It did die pretty soon after and from what I understand it went to Canterbury Museum so when Paul Scofield chances upon this thread I’m sure he will provide an update.
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Re: Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand 2022
I took Paul some books this morning. He and I both remember this sick bird coming in, alive, with Jackie. I am not sure what it was id. as, but Paul may say, and also whether the corpse is in the collection.