Photo 56432267, (c) Peter Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Peter Vos

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Uploaded by bushboy bushboy
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Photos / Sounds

What

Great-winged Petrel (Pterodroma macroptera)

Observer

bushboy

Date

November 16, 2019 11:42 AM SAST

Description

Cryptic rescue

Found by kind lady "flopping about on Pennington beach". Taken to vet then to Mary & Allan for rehab ...

Fishy's a Sooty! A day later and the little fellow's all settled, feeding well (calamari & white-fish, with skin) and just wants to escape his box and fly.
Needs a good moult. Presumably plumage battered by a stormy beaching.

Fishy's a friendly bird, generous with sharing his lice with his 'mom': https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35806794
And his 'dad': https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35806795

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