Pelagic Seabirds of Atlantic Canada Shearwaters and Fulmars Greater Shearwater Manx Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Cory’s Shearwater
dark cap dark head
dark dark yellow belly body bill white undertail broad coverts wings
White Hagdown, White Bawk Hagdown, Bawk Black Hagdown, Black Bawk Hagdown, Bawk Greater (left) and Manx Shearwater Cory’s (left) and Manx Shearwater
white collar
paler back
Greater Northern Fulmar Shearwater Storm-Petrels Wilson’s Leach’s dark prominent eye deep notch pale coverts
wing beat shallow and stiff
Noddy, John Down Mother Carey’s Chicken, Carey Chick Jaegers and Skuas Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Great Skua
both large pale have spots on slow coverts steady wing short beats pointy long slender tail short bill long twisted tail tail All Jaegers are commonly known as Shit-eater, Shit King and Bo’sun Bird Sea Hen, Grand Goose Gannets Phalaropes Northern Red-necked Red Red-necked Adult Immature Immature Winter adult Winter adult Winter adult Immature
streaked grey
paler grey
Whale Bird Gale Bird, Gill Bird, Gaunt, Gannet Poverty Bird Environment Canada Environnement Canada Photo credits: Bruce Mactavish, John Chardine, Brian Patteson, Atlantic Region Région de l’Atlantique Sabina Wilhelm, Anna Calvert, and Ian Jones. © 2005 Black wing-tipped Gulls Great Black- backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Herring Gull Adult Breeding adult Winter adult Adult has brownish dark patch head in winter behind marbled eye more uniform underwing brown than coverts GBBG in 1st and 2nd winter
Immature Immature Immature (2nd or 3rd winter) (1st winter) (1st winter) Tickelace, bold black Saddleback, Tickle ass Saddler wing pattern black bill Sea Gull, Blue Gull, black bill in 1st winter and black nd Glue Gull, Bluey tip in 2 winter for both species White-winged Gulls Adult Ivory Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Adult uniformly Adult white flatter head than ICGU Immature Immature (2nd winter)
dusky face
Ice Partridge, Immature longer & st Ice Gull, Seal dark spots on (1 winter) wing & tail tip larger bill Bird than ICGU Large Ice Gull, Burgomaster, White Minister black bill in 1st winter White- and black tip in 2nd winter winged Gull, for both species Thick-billed Murre Winter-plumaged Auks Ice Gull white gape line dark cheeks Common Murre Atlantic Puffin Razorbill Black Guillemot Adult Immature
deep bill white behind eye white whitish head larger, more behind eye colourful bill Dovekie than immature
white patch visible in flight in winter and summer Bullbird Murre Tinker Sea Pigeon, Pigeon Sea Parrot, Hatchet-bill Breeding-plumaged Auks Common Murre Atlantic Puffin Thick-billed Murre Razorbill Black Guillemot
white gape line
can appear browner than TBMU and RAZO Turre Names in green refer to Newfoundland and Labrador common names