#petrels

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Annoyed by others? Need your own space? Take a page from the snow petrel's book, and vomit! Adults, particularly nesting adults, will upchuck a special kind of stomach oil called mumiyo at potential threats like skuas. Because the petrels nest in the same place year after year, the mumiyo will harden and build up; in some places, scientists have excavated layers of vomit dating back more than 34,000 years!

(Image: A pair of nesting snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea) by Luke Einoder)

[errantsquam]

hands you a bird

(ref pic: inat photo ID 425284316)

[pseudocurios]

stamps from a series on antarctic fauna. ussr, issued 1978.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Seabirds!!!!

[antiqueanimals]

Black-capped petrel (Pterodroma hasitata)

\Part of a collection of watercolors by "M. Rabié" for St. Domingue Oiseaux. Dated 1766.

Internet Archive

[smallerdelusions]

Meet the Guadalupe Storm Petrel, Day 15 of Extinct Bird Drawtober!

Pictured with the Monterey Pine, one of the trees they nested beneath. This Petrel lived exclusively on islands off the western coast of Mexico and made nests on Guadalupe Island. It shared this habitat with the Leach's Storm Petrel, who nested on other islands as well.

Introduced goats devastated the native flora of the island in the early 1930s, which introduced cats prey on adults and young alike. Efforts are ongoing to save the island's unique ecosystem from these pests, but the Guadalupe Storm Petrel it came too late. Recent intensive studies found no nests or signs of life in old burrows and recommended the species be listed as extinct.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Bermuda Petrel

Photo: Miguel A Mejias, PhD.

"Endangered Atlantic Ocean seabird that nests on Bermuda and disperses widely when not breeding. When not nesting, it can only be seen far from land, where it often flies in swooping arcs with little flapping. Locally known as 'Cahow', it very nearly went extinct in the mid-twentieth century, but was returned from the brink largely due to the heroic efforts of local conservationists."

- eBird

[snototter]

A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) chick sits in it's nest in South Georgia, Antarctica

by Laurence Green