. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Richard R. Veit et al. 27 Bull. 2007 127(1) Records of rare birds in the Indian Ocean during the austral summers of 2003-05 by Richard R. Veit^ K. David Hyrenbach & Marie-Caroline Martin Received 9 November 2005; final revision received 15 December 2006 On 2 January 2003 RRV and KDH left Reunion aboard the R/V Marion Dufresne, stopped at lie de la Possession (Crozet archipelago) and Grand Terre (Kerguelen archipelago), St Paul and Amsterdam Island, and arrived at Fremantle, Australia on 22 January. In 2004, RRV and M-CM left Reunion on
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Richard R. Veit et al. 27 Bull. 2007 127(1) Records of rare birds in the Indian Ocean during the austral summers of 2003-05 by Richard R. Veit^ K. David Hyrenbach & Marie-Caroline Martin Received 9 November 2005; final revision received 15 December 2006 On 2 January 2003 RRV and KDH left Reunion aboard the R/V Marion Dufresne, stopped at lie de la Possession (Crozet archipelago) and Grand Terre (Kerguelen archipelago), St Paul and Amsterdam Island, and arrived at Fremantle, Australia on 22 January. In 2004, RRV and M-CM left Reunion on 3 January, stopped at Mauritius, Mayotte, lie de la Possession, and Kerguelen and then, together with KDH, returned to La Reunion on 10 February. In 2005, RRV and M-CM left La Reunion on 12 January and returned, after spending five weeks near Kerguelen, on 22 February (Fig. 1). The following observations appear to be of particular interest. JUAN FERNANDEZ PETREL Pterodroma externa Wq saw one Juan Fernandez Petrel in 2003 and three in 2004, the first records of this south-temperate Pacific species for the Indian Ocean, though the closely related White-necked Petrel P. cervicalis has been recorded north of the Crozets (Shirihai 2003). Juan Fernandez Petrels breed only at Alexander Selkirk Island, Juan Fernandez archipelago (33°S, 81°W), and disperse into the Pacific between 20°N and 50°S, west to °W. There are records of vagrants from Australia, New. 40°S 60°S 500 km Western ^ Australia \ Amsterdam \ r — \ /St. Paul Crozet ^T*/ ^^Kerguelen i 2003 2004 40°E 80°E 120°E Figure 1. Map of the Indian Ocean, showing the areas surveyed in 2003 (2-22 January, black) and 2004 (3 January-10 February, grey), and the islands Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists'
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