Long-tailed Jaeger 长尾贼鸥

Order : Charadriiformes 鸻形目

Family : Stercorariidae 贼鸥科
Genus : Stercorarius 贼鸥属

Binomial name : Stercorarius longicaudus

Long-tailed Jaeger
长尾贼鸥

Size: 48~53cm (tail-streamers of up to 22cm), ws105~117cm

Habitat: Open seas.

Behaviour: Often chases terns and gulls in acrobatic flight.

Status: Migrant

Alternate name: Long-tailed Skua
lifer: May2023 . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

  

Long-tailed Jaeger (dark morph . juv.?)

lifer 20230430 2.17pm Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Long-tailed Jaeger (pale morph . adult)

20230507 11.47am Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Parasitic Jaeger 短尾贼鸥

Order : Charadriiformes 鸻形目

Family : Stercorariidae 贼鸥科
Genus : Stercorarius 贼鸥属

Binomial name : Stercorarius parasiticus

Parasitic Jaeger
短尾贼鸥

Size: 41~46cm, ws110~125cm

Habitat: Open seas, sometimes close inshore

Behaviour: Often chases terns and gulls in acrobatic flight.

Status: Vagrant

Alternate name: Arctic Skua, Arctic Jaeger
lifer: May2023 . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Parasitic Jaeger (light morph . juv.)

lifer 20230430 12.47pm . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Parasitic Jaeger (adult)

lifer 20230430 1.13pm . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Parasitic Jaeger (2nd winter pale morph)

lifer 20230430 1.33pm . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

* ID checked Graig Robson field guide page114

Parasitic Jaeger (adult)

lifer 20230430 2.20pm . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Streaked Shearwater 白额鹱

Order : Procellariiformes 鹱形目

Family : Procellariidae 鹱科
Genus : Calonectris 丽鹱属

Binomial name : Calonectris leucomelas

Streaked Shearwater
白额鹱(hù)

Size: 45~52cm, ws103~122cm

Habitat: Open seas

Behaviour: Flight direct but languid, gliding on bowed wings.

Status: Migrant

lifer: Apr2023 . offshore Tanjung Dawai @ Kedah

Streaked Shearwater

lifer 20230430 2.08~2.13pm . offshore Tanjung Dawai @ Kedah

Brown Noddy 白顶玄燕鸥

Order : Charadriiformes 鸻形目

Family : Laridae 鸥科
Genus : Anous 玄燕鸥属

Binomial name : Anous stolidus

Brown Noddy
白顶玄燕鸥

Size: 38~45cm, ws75~86cm

Habitat: Often forages some distance offshore and rarely seen from mainland Peninsula or Borneo, chiefly after storms.

Status: Resident
lifer: Apr2023 . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Brown Noddy

lifer 20230430 10.44am . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Brown Noddy

lifer 20230430 10.55am . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Brown Noddy

lifer 20230430 11.02am . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Brown Noddy

lifer 20230430 12.43pm . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah

Brown Noddy

lifer 20230430 1.57pm . Tanjung Dawai Offshore @ Kedah