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Titre :	From the rarities committee's files: Do we know what British 'soft-plumaged petrels' are?
Auteurs :	Jimmy Steele, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	British Birds (99(8) AUG 2006)
Article en page(s) :	404-419
Résumé :	Sightings of soft-plumaged petrels' Pterodroma mollis/madeira/feae in British waters have increased significantly in the last 20 years, and there has been a growing realisation that all the British birds show a suite of characters associated with Fea's Petrel P feae. Fea's Petrel has recently been accepted onto the British List, and there are now three accepted records for Britain, all seen in the Southwest Approaches, in July 200 1,August 2001 and September 2004 (see pp. 394-403).The steady accumulation of records has focused attention on the criteria necessary to assess claims of this species. This paper summarises the current situation, reviews the identification of Fea's Petrel in comparison with Zino's P madeira and Soft-plumaged Petrel P mollis, and attempts to establish those characters which are required for records to be accepted, either at the species level or as being of the soft-plumaged petrel' complex.

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