Monday 19 September 2011

BLACK-BELLIED STORM PETREL, WHITE-FACED STORM PETREL, WILSON'S PETRELS and putative SOUTH POLAR SKUAS seen from Lanzarote Pelagic trip, Canary Islands

For full details and photographs, see the links at http://www.surfbirds.com/blog/birdinglanzarote/22696

Two Black-bellied Storm Petrels have thus far been recorded in Britain, with one off North Norfolk in December and another far up the Bristol Channel at Severn Beach in October. More will certainly follow...........

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