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Imminent Release: Zino's Petrel Pelagic Report

We are on the verge of releasing the final version of the first Zino's Petrel successful pelagic.
It will include details data, techniques and the the first ever unequivocal and photographically documented at-sea records of the Zino's Petrel. All this during this weekend on Madeira Birdwatching.

Madeira Pelagics 2010 - Zino's Petrel Sea Expedition

Follow the success of the research trips we run this and last year.
We started to accept interest submissions by birdwatchers.
The trips will run between May and June, in blocks of 3 days.
Relevant species seen in previous Pelagics:

Hydrobatidae
Madeiran Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma castro) * Winter & Summer Populations
White-faced Petrel (Pelagodroma marina)
European Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)
Swinhoe's Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma monorhis)
Wilson's Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Leach's Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)

Procellariidae
Zino's Petrel (Pterodroma madeira)
Fea's Petrel (Pterodroma feae)
Macaronesian Shearwater (Puffinus baroli)
Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)
Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris borealis)
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)

Laridae
Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)

Stercorariidae
Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
Pomarine Skua (Stercorarius pomarinus)

Interested in the Pelagics?