Joe Pender Wildlife Photography

Tuesday 23 August 2011

Great Shearwater (Puffinus Gravis)


Some more photos of Great Shearwater from last nights Pelagic on which we saw 5 Great Shearwaters 3 Sooty Shearwaters 3 Bonxies and we also tagged 4 Blue Sharks .

8 comments:

  1. Quality shots Joe.
    Thanks again for last week, we all had a great time.
    cheers
    jason

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  2. Excellent shots, first one is my favourite of the two.

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  3. Super pictures..fantastic bird.it seems to have a large wing span but none of my give this information.can you help ?

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  4. re above post...should say my books!

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  5. Great Shearwaters have a wing span 100-118cm (3.8ft) they visit the North atlantic during the southern winter. They only have 3 main breeding sites which are nightingale island -Tristan Da Cunha group and Gough island.
    Hope this helps.
    Joe.

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  6. thanks very much Joe..

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