Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Probable Swinhoe's Storm-Petrels from Atlantic, Mediterranean and Red Sea


I've tabulated a very informal and incomplete list of reports
from the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Red Seas of dark-rumped petrels that are presumed to be Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel.

ENGLAND
?? 'Chalice petrel' 3 Aug 1998 (ATS, ph, see Garner and Mullarney 2004)
Tynemouth Pier, Tyne. &. Wear, 19 & 26 July 1989 (Tp*)
Tynemouth Pier, Tyne. &. Wear, 7 July 1990 (Tp*)
Tynemouth Pier, Tyne. &. Wear, 31 July 1991 (Tp* controlled)
Tynemouth Pier, Tyne. &. Wear, July 1992 (Tp* controlled)
Tynemouth Pier, Tyne. &. Wear, July 1994 (Tp* controlled)
at sea off Scilly Islands, 21 July 2006 (ATS, Ph)
FRANCE
Banneg, Bretagne, 27 Jul 1989 (Tp, see Bretagnolle et al 1991)
GERMANY
Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), 24 Sept 2004 (see Aumüller et al. 2005)
NETHERLANDS
Camperduin, Bergen, Noord-Holland, 22 Sept 2004 (NOT ACCEPTED by CDNA)
NORWAY
Revekaien, Jaeren, Rogaland, 13 Aug 1996 (Tp)
Revekaien, Jaeren, Rogaland, 9 Aug 1997 (Tp*)
Revekaien, Jaeren, Rogaland, July 2000 (Tp* controlled)
Revekaien, Jaeren, Rogaland, Aug 2000 (Tp* controlled)
Revekaien, Jaeren, Rogaland, 5 Aug 2003 (Tp* controlled)
Hernyken, Nordland, Røst, 13 Aug 2006 (Tp)
IRELAND
Bridges of Ross, Clare, 15 Aug 1985 (?)
Great Skellig Rock, Kerry, 1 July 2000 (Tp)
ISRAEL (Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea)
Eilat, Jan 1958 (Sp)
North Beach, Eilat, 8 Sept 2001 (Sp, Tel Aviv Uni #AV15980, see Reuven et al. Sandgrouse 25:150-151)
Eilat, 19 Apr 2003 (ATS, Ph, Sp, see Granit and Smith 2004 Sandgrouse 26(1): 51-52)
North Beach, Eilat, Sept 2004
Eilat, 24 Jan 2008 (Sp)
ITALY
Genoa, Liguria, 11 Aug 1991 (see Arcamone et al. 1995)
Mid-Atlantic (between Sierra Leone and Brazil)
2, 04 deg 13' N, 19 deg 10'W (ATS, see Hales and Vaughn, 2003)
PORTUGAL
Ponta da Almadena, Luz, Algarve, 27 June 1998 (Tp, Ph)
SCOTLAND
Cove Harbor, Aberdeenshire, 5 Aug 2000 (Tp, Baxter and Scott)
Coll, Argyll, 10 May 2004
SELVAGENS ISLANDS, PORTUGAL
Selvagem Grande 29 Jun 1983 (Tp* see James and Robertson 1985)
1986 (Tp*)

Selvagem Grande 30 Jun 1988 (Tp, see Bretagnolle et al 1991)
17 Aug 2007 (Tp*)
SPAIN
Isla Benidorm, 13 Jul 1994 (Tp, see King and Minguez 1994)
Ses Bledes, Cabrera Is, 13 Aug 1997 (Tp, see McMinn and Dietrich 1997)
USA
Gulf Stream, North Carolina, Aug 1993 (ATS, see Brinkley 1995)
Gulf Stream, North Carolina, 8 Aug 1998 (ATS, Ph, see O'Brian et al. 1999)
Gulf Stream, North Carolina, 2 Jun 2008 (ATS, Ph, Patteson et al.)

ATS = At sea sighting
Ph = photographed
Sp = specimen
Tp = trapped & released
Tp* = trapped & released multiple times

Useful Citations:
-- Arcamone, E. et al., (1995) Comitato di Omologazione Italiano. Riv.Ital.Orn., 65:63-68.
-- Aumüller, R., Bock, C and Deutsch, M. (2005) Eine „dunkle Sturmschwalbe“ mit Merkmalen eines Swinhoewellenläufers Oceanodroma monorhis in Deutschland. http://www.club300.de/articles/003_swinhoe/index.html
-- Baxter and Scott. http://www.albaecology.co.uk/birdscot/docs/article3-4.htm
-- Bretagnolle, V., Carruthers, M., Cubitt, M., Bioret, F., and Cuillandre, J-P. (1991) Six captures of a dark-rumped, fork-tailed storm-petrel in the northern Atlantic. Ibis 133: p351-356.
-- Brinkley, ES. (1995) Dark-rumped storm-petrels in the North Atlantic. Birding 27: p95-97.
-- Cubitt, M. (1995) Swinhoe's Storm-petrels at Tynemouth: New to Britain and Ireland. British Birds 88: 342-348.
-- Garner and Mullarney (2004) A critical look at the evidence relating to 'the Chalice petrel'. British Birds 97:336 - 345.
-- Granit, B. and Smith, J.P. (2004) Another Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis at Eilat. Sandgrouse 26(1): 51-52
-- Hales, S. and Vaughan, J. (2003) Dark-rumped Oceanodroma Storm-petrels in the central Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic Seabirds 5(2): 85-86.
-- James, PC., and Robertson, HA. (1985) First record of Swinhoe's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis in the Atlantic Ocean. Ardea 73: p105-106.
-- King, J. and Minguez, E. (1994) Swinhoe's Petrel: The first Mediterranean record. Birding World 7: p271-273.
-- McMinn, M. and Dietrich, P (1997) Captura de un paiño de Swinhoe Oceanodroma
monorhisen el islote de Ses Bledes, archipiélago de Cabrera. [A Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhiscaught on the islet of Ses Bledes, Cabrera]. l’ANUARI ORNITOLOGIC DE LES BALEARS :67
-- Morrison, S. 1998: All-dark petrels in the North Atlantic. British Birds 91: 540-560.
-- O'Brian, M. Patteson, JB., Armistead, GL., Pearce, GB. (1999) Swinhoe's Storm-petrel: First North American photographic record. North American Birds 53(1): p6-10.

No comments: