Indonesian- Penggunting merpati
Description: small (26 cm) grey, black and white shearwater. Tail wedge-shaped with black tip. Upperparts bluish grey with a black W shape formed by outer primaries, scapulars and a dark band across the lower back. A blackish line extends under the eye.nderparts white. Iris- dark; bill –grey; feet –greyish blue.
Voice: silent at sea
Distribution and status: Sub anartic and southern oceans normally only up to 35°S but single exhausted individual was washed up on the S. Java coast in the 1930’s.
Habits: flies with fast zig-zagging erratic flight low over the sea, often in flocks, banking from side to side.
Diet: Fish
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Shearwater-family Procellariidae
Shearwaters-family Procellariidae
A moderately large family of oceanic gull-like birds with curiously structured tube-nose bills, hooked at the end and with the nostrils opening in a double tube on top of the bill.
Shearwaters get their English name from their habit of flying just above the water surface or even touching the water. They dive for fish and crustaceans and nest on cliff ledges or in borrows on rocky islets. They are predominantly temperate in distribution with four species seen off Java.
Key to Javan Shearwaters
underside dark chocolate……………………………………….(2)
underside white………………………………………………….(3)
2. Bill long and slender Puffinus pacificus (dark form)
Bill short and squat………………………………..Bulweria bulwerii
upperparts grey with blackish W pattern on back and wings
…………………………………………………Pachyptila desolata
Upperparts uniform grayish brown………………………………(4)
Tail wedge-shaped, blackish………………(Puffinus pacificus (pale form)
Tail rounded, brown…………………………..Colonectris leucomelas
A moderately large family of oceanic gull-like birds with curiously structured tube-nose bills, hooked at the end and with the nostrils opening in a double tube on top of the bill.
Shearwaters get their English name from their habit of flying just above the water surface or even touching the water. They dive for fish and crustaceans and nest on cliff ledges or in borrows on rocky islets. They are predominantly temperate in distribution with four species seen off Java.
Key to Javan Shearwaters
underside dark chocolate……………………………………….(2)
underside white………………………………………………….(3)
2. Bill long and slender Puffinus pacificus (dark form)
Bill short and squat………………………………..Bulweria bulwerii
upperparts grey with blackish W pattern on back and wings
…………………………………………………Pachyptila desolata
Upperparts uniform grayish brown………………………………(4)
Tail wedge-shaped, blackish………………(Puffinus pacificus (pale form)
Tail rounded, brown…………………………..Colonectris leucomelas
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