{"id":2786,"date":"2006-11-12T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:12:10","slug":"long-billed-murrelet-in-devon-12th-november-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/long-billed-murrelet-in-devon-12th-november-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-billed Murrelet in Devon – 12th November 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tA first record for Britain, what a bird.I doubt if anyone would have predicted this species as a <\/span>potential addition to the British List?<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPhotographs of this bird were originally posted to the <\/span>internet as a Little Auk, on Tuesday 7th November. The bird was subsequently identified <\/span>from the photos and when the news finally came out, that a Long-billed Murrelet had beens <\/span>seen off the coast of Devon, 4 days previously, albeit hearts sank! Unbelievably, the bird was <\/span>relocated on Saturday 11th November and on Sunday 12th November, I witnessed the <\/span>largest “twitch” for many years. Golden-winged Warbler springs to mind.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tLong-billed Murrelet – Brachyramphus perdix – Dawlish Warren, Devon – 12th November 2004<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThe species originates from the Pacific Coast of Siberia. Very little is known of this species <\/span>and precious little is known of it’s breeding biology. Very few nests have ever been found, <\/span>despite the fact that they occur in thousands on the sea.<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThey lay a single egg on a bare branch or on the ground and the nest site is usually located <\/span>some twenty miles inland. Murrelets seem to have a small life span only living for 2-3 years. <\/span>Note the distinctive head shape and length of bill compared to other Murrelet species that <\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\tshow white scapular patches. The bird is in first year\/winter plumage. As an adult nonbreeding plumaged bird, it would show an all black nape and would lack the mottling on the <\/span>lower neck and flanks.The bird shows a distinctive split orbital eye-ring and lacks any sign of <\/span>a white collar. Long and slender wings, which were fluttered and held sharply back prior to <\/span>diving. The bird would drift far out to sea, sometimes so far out that it was lost to view. It <\/span>would then fly close inshore to feed and during this time gave stunning views but was very active and constantly diving. It made digi-scoping very difficult.<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n
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A first record for Britain, what a bird.I doubt if anyone would have predicted this species as a potential addition to the British List? Photographs of this bird were originally posted to the internet as a Little Auk, on Tuesday 7th November. The bird was subsequently identified from the photos and when the news finally came out, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,18,602,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-202","category-birds","category-birdsof2006","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}