Putative Sooty Shearwater in Malta

[LeeEvans]

I was just browsing the Europe Stop Press pages and came across a seabird labelled 'Sooty Shearwater' photographed off Malta on 18 July 2009. Is this not just a Cory's Shearwater?

[MichaelF]

There's already been a thread on this one: http://www.surfbirds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5504

[LeeEvans]

Many thanks Mike - I didn't realise there was another thread. Seems people have come to the same conclusion I di when I looked at it

Very best wishes

Lee

[Ben Miller]

Many thanks Mike - I didn't realise there was another thread.

Hi Lee,

As we've discussed before, publiscised mis-ID's are happening more and more often, and this includes more and more photos being incorrectly labelled in the Surfbirds gallery.

I've raised this a few times before, the need for some sort of "comment" function or central point to lodge these mistakes, but no progress yet.

B