Band-rumped Storm Petrel

Hydrobates castro (Harcourt, 1851)(0, 1)

Photo © Virgílio Gomes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

STATUS

Oceanic.

OVERVIEW

Madeiran Petrels breeding on Anaga Islet, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) were fitted with GPS-tags (accurate to within several metres) in November 2021 to help elucidate their at-sea distribution. One individual ‘LX07518’ undertook a nine-day foraging trip covering 6,151 km up to 2,580 km from its breeding colony where, after visiting contiguous Irish waters (and becoming a potential national first there), it was logged in British waters ca. 285 km southwest of Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly; first at 21:14 on 16 November 2021 and last at 08:14 on 17 November 2021 (Brit. Birds 116: 232–234) (https://bou.org.uk/british-list/changes-to-the-british-list-13-aug-2024/).

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BBRC RECORD

1). 2007 At sea Sea area Fitzroy, ca. 48° 28′ N, 9° 52′ W, 3CY, 16th and 17th November (GPS-tagged ‘LX07518’).

(https://bou.org.uk/british-list/changes-to-the-british-list-13-aug-2024/).