Spaces still available for Cape Verde Pelagics 07-13 May!!...
One of the best pelagic birding experiences in the Western Palearctic!
Follow the link below or send me a message for more information on the pelagics, bookings and travel logistics to Fogo.
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Cape Verde shearwater (Calonectris edwardsii)
More updates from March 2026, plus the dates of upcoming Cape Verde Pelagics in May 2026 and March 2027, coming very soon…
Cape Verde petrel (Pterodroma feae)
Boyd’s shearwater (Puffinus boydi)
White-faced storm-petrel (Pelagodroma marina eadesi)
Masked booby (Sula dactylatra)
Cape Verde Pelagics - March 2026 was a resounding success! Two weeklong pelagic package tours provided unrivalled views of the archipelagos endemic seabirds including the spectacular Cape Verde petrel, as well as discovering rarities including masked booby, black-capped petrel & black-headed heron!
Black-capped petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) - rare and enigmatic in the Western Palearctic, recorded with increasing frequency in Cape Verdean waters.
Cape Verde Petrel (Pterodroma feae) - endemic breeder common in the waters around Fogo
White-faced storm-petrel (Pelagodroma marina eadesi) - one of the most photogenic North Atlantic seabirds, this endemic sub-species is common in the waters around Fogo.
Cape Verde Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates jabejabe) - a large, powerful storm-petrel endemic to Cape Verde. Breeding in their 1000s on the nearby Rombos Islands, but notoriously elusive at sea.
*NEW* Cape Verde Pelagics 🇨🇻
March 2026 - only 2 spaces left on this exciting pelagic package trip in the southwest corner of the Western Palearctic!
4 full-day pelagics, night visit to a Pterodroma feae colony, day tour of Fogo - based in the town of São Filipe.
Info at www.windshearbirding.com
Christmas can be an expensive time of year, so how about something for free?
The @scottishbirding.bsky.social and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.
Brilliant! Great to relive some of the Challenger tales 🙌
You want the best? You got the best. Not @jonnybirder.bsky.social and me... we only got @nomadbirder.bsky.social on the pod!
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There's also shout outs to @scottinscilly.bsky.social and @jakegearty.bsky.social
#TheTwoJonnies #Podcast #Seabirds #Secretary
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A great end to the week working on Tresco finding a pallid swift hawking around between the Abbey & Great Pool. Another top addition to a good start to Nov across the islands with two Pallas’s warblers, Richard’s pipit, dusky warbler, OBP, Rbfly & RND arriving in the last two days! #ScillyBirds
I have 3 spaces available for the 2026 Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge in British waters.
See images below for more information, dates and contact details…
#seabirds #UKbirding
Excellent, and gripping, memories. See my reply to Steve Dudley above, a cracking pic of the Telegraph bird from the 1991 Scilly Review 🙌
This great photo of the Telegraph bird is in the 1991 review… I’ve also found a photo of the one on Tresco in 1992, but currently struggling to track down a photo of the 1993 bird!
Great to see a rarity with such a rich history in Scilly birding folklore 🙌
Scilly’s first EYEBROWED THRUSH in 32 years!
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
After two frustrating days the secrets of the St. Agnes mourning dove were finally revealed today!
First for Scilly, first for England, sixth for Britain! A real heavyweight nearctic mega to get the pulses racing, and a very classy little bird it is too!
#ScillyBirds
Just back from a pelagic trip out to the Whittard Canyon area on the continental shelf edge with @scillypelagics.bsky.social @scottinscilly.bsky.social @nomadbirder.bsky.social Madeiran Storm Petrel reclassified from MEGA!!! to scarce summer visitor in one evening with 84 counted last night! 😂
A couple of lovely nearctic waders recently delivered to Scilly by the early autumn westerly gales.
Pectoral sandpiper, Porth Hellick.
Buff-breasted sandpiper, St. Mary’s Airfield.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #ukbirding
Western Bonelli’s Warbler, present for its sixth day, showing very well in the Garrison Dead Pines this morning.
Scilly’s 34th record of WBW - undoubtedly one of, if not the, most reliable place to see the species in Britain.
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Two lovely nudibranchs from Porthcressa Bay, Isles of Scilly.
White-sparkled facelina (Facelina annulicornis)
Four-lined polycera (Polycera quadriliniata)
#MarineLife #UKWildlife
Great effort 🙌
Judging by the length of the skull/jaws it’s most likely a short-beaked common dolphin