⛴️ Seabird Pelagic Tours, Expeditions & Island Birding 🏝️ Day to day birding on the magical Isles of Scilly
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Cape Verde Pelagics - Spring 2027 🇨🇻
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This Ultimate Western Palearctic Pelagics!
- Four full-day pelagics
- Nighttime visit to Cape Verde Petrel colony
- Day tour of Fogo
- Six-nights clifftop B&B accomm.
Visit windshearbirding.com for dates & booking!
*NEW* Cape Verde Pelagics 🇨🇻
March 2026 - 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 São Filipe.
Info windshearbirding.com
ALT Black-capped petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) - rare and enigmatic in the Western Palearctic, recorded with increasing frequency in Cape Verdean waters.
ALT Cape Verde Petrel (Pterodroma feae) - endemic breeder common in the waters around Fogo
ALT 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.
ALT 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.
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Fourth night at the Gongon courtship area on Fogo(Cabo Verde). Storm !Birds remained high in the air so no pictures but their high-speed chasing flights with mid-air touching and stalling were even more spectacular than during the previous nights. Filmed with Pulsar Merger XL50
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Gongon courtship flights in the "courtship bubble" (only part of the airspace is used). Thanks to Projecto Vito for the logistics support @projecto_vito . Filmed with Pulsar merger LRF XL50.
I have one space available on the 2025 Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge. The 2024 trip yielded Madeiran storm-petrels, barolo shearwaters, a fea’s-type petrel, & more, in British waters. Sept 14-22 from Plymouth. Email [email protected] if interested.
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@SeabirdEcology of #SEAGHOSTS has just started the fieldwork for band-rumped #stormpetrels in the Canaries with a great start: we've recovered the first geolocator during the first night of work!! More soon... @IRBioUB @BiologiaUB @UniBarcelona @FBiodiversidad @BiodiversaPlus
The most ridiculous fifteen minutes spent alone with the Mount Todden Radde’s warbler, as I sat on the grass with it busily snaffling bugs around me 🕷️
My sixth Radde’s on Scilly but I’ve never enjoyed views even remotely as good as this!! 🔥 #ScillyBirds
An eastern-themed end to a calm and bright October on Scilly #ScillyBirds
Our September seabird expedition aboard @TallShipsYT ‘Challenger 1’ presented a rare opportunity to swim in Britain’s deepest seas!
Drifting over the Whittard Channel, 185 miles southwest of the Isles of Scilly & at a depth of almost 4000m, we took the plunge! ⛵️ 🏊
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Belated news; Barau´s Petrel, Pterodroma baraui photographed at Cap Ferret by Guillaume Rey on 10th October 2024, confirmed from photos by Bob Flood and Hadoram Shirihai - the 1st record for France and Western Palearctic - More photos - faune-france.org/index.php?m…
The most confiding lesser yellowlegs I’ve ever had the pleasure of spending time with - Stinking Porth, Bryher, yesterday afternoon #ScillyBirds
My most-wanted moth in Scilly (& Britain), ever since seeing them regularly whilst living in Cyprus! I’ve had to wait 15 years but today it finally happened, courtesy of Andrew Cleave’s Old Town moth trap 🙌 what a beaut!! #ScillyMoths
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Slowly working through photos from an epic trip to the edge of the continental shelf courtesy of @stmarys_patch . In addition to the birds, a few cetacean highlights, such as these striped dolphins checking out the boat at dusk, magic!
A welcome home gift! Barely ashore for an hour and a paddyfield warbler is caught at Porth Hellick! #ScillyBirds
Here we go! Next stop the continental shelf edge. It’s been over 18 months in the making and we’re underway! 🌊 ⛵️
See you in week 👋
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Due to a late cancellation I have a space available on our British seabird expedition to the continental shelf edge 8th-17th September from Falmouth. £1600.
A pioneering expedition with huge potential for rare seabirds & cetaceans.
[email protected] for more info!
Scilly’s first gull-billed tern in 24 yrs spent y’day afternoon feeding along the tideline of Porthcressa Beach for a crowd of appreciative observers.
Absolute Scilly gold & the first ‘gettable’ record for the islands, with all previous birds being ‘one-dayers’!
#ScillyBirds
Due to a late cancellation I have a space available on our British seabird expedition to the continental shelf edge 8th-17th September from Falmouth. £1600.
A pioneering expedition with huge potential for rare seabirds & cetaceans.
[email protected] for more info!