Indonesian-Penggunting laut
Description: medium-sized (39 cm) long-winged, wedge-tailed shearwater. Occurs in light and dark colour phases. In dark phase it is dark chocolate all over with grey bill and pinkish legs. In pale phase it is brown above, whitish below with white underwings showing dark borders and undertail coverts; the bill is dark pink; feet-flesh-coloured.
Voice: a slow wailing song at breeding sites but silent at sea.
Distribution and status: Indian and pacific oceans. Stray bird can occur anywhere in S.E. Asian waters. Occasional records off Javan coasts.
Habits: flies low over the sea. Banking from side to side with occasional swoops and frequently gliding so low over water that the wing tips touch surface at bottom of beat.
Diet: fish, squids, plankton and crustaceans.
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Dove Prion (Pachyptila desolata)
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
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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