16th June 2014 - Topsham
Here's one I made earlier: this is a recently painted plate from the 'Tubenose Handbook' - by Hadoram Shirihai and Vincent Bretagnolle, and illustrated by yours truly (still can't quite believe my luck to be working on this project). Occasionally I find myself working on a species I think I know fairly well, back in the late 80's and early 90's I had many good days at Porthgwarra watching big passages of Great and Cory's Shearwaters. Having said that, it's only after sorting through hundreds of photos that I really appreciate just how variable Great Shearwater is and that juveniles are often identifiable.
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| Great Shearwaters - underside variation |
And here's the whole plate - with provisional captions and before corrections.
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| Great and Cape Verde Shearwaters |
In the book this plate will be faced by one showing Cory's and Scopoli's Shearwaters.
