Great Shearwaters Ardenna gravis in the eastern Indian Ocean: a photo-documented record and summary of recent sightings
Authors
AYMERIC FROMANT1,2, KARINE DELORD1 & MARINE QUINTIN1
1Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et de l’Université de La Rochelle, Villiers-en-Bois, France
2School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia (afromant@deakin.edu.au)
Citation
FROMANT, A., DELORD, K. & QUINTIN, M. 2018. Great Shearwaters Ardenna gravis in the eastern Indian Ocean: a photo-documented record and summary of recent sightings.
Marine Ornithology 46: 89
- 91
http://doi.org/10.5038/2074-1235.46.1.1255
Received 26 September 2017, accepted 23 November 2017
Date Published: 2018/4/15
Date Online: 2018/3/20
Key words: eastern Indian Ocean, extra-limital occurrence, Great Shearwater, Ardenna gravis
Abstract
A Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis, observed and photographed off Amsterdam Island, on 2 February 2017, was a rare but not exclusive sighting of this species from the eastern Indian Ocean. We summarize the occurrence of this species in the southern Indian Ocean based on surveys conducted during the period 1985–2017.
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