Little/Subantarctic Shearwater - Pep Arcos

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Little/Subantarctic Shearwater Puffinus assimilis/elegans

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Location

Cook Strait Ferry--Fitzroy Bay
Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand
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Map Coordinates: -41.3793847, 174.7938538
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

Bird flying along a Fluttering shearwater (right bird), identified afterwards from pic (smaller than acompanying bird, short and straight wings, quite pale face). Initially identified as Little Shearwater (assimilis), but further examination would rather suggest Sub-Antarctic Little Shearwater (elegans), on the basis of considerably dark upperparts, including neck (white in face not so extended as would be expected in assimilis). For now left as unidentified bird from Little/Sub-Antarctic complex.

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