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click for enlargement		Photo ID: 1336 3162 0803 0103 Current Taxon: Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi Photographer: Gerald and Buff Corsi Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Gold Harbor Photographer's ID: Stercorarius antarcticus ssp. lonnbergi Photo Submitted: 2004-12-07 Annotation: 1 annotation Photo ©2004 California Academy of Sciences

Annotation History

Date	Name	Action	Animal Name Before Changes	Animal Name Changed to
Date	Annotation Notes
08/14/2008	Rohan Clarke	taxon changed	Macronectes halli (Northern Giant Petrel)	Stercorarius antarcticus (Brown Skua)
08/14/2008	This is a Brown (Southern) Skua Stercorarius antarcticus. A very slim chance that it is a South Polar Skua but given it was photographed on an island where Brown Skua breed and displays typical adult plumage for that species Brown Skua is the most parsimonious identification. It is not a Giant Petrel for a number of reasons: most obvious reason being that it has a dark not pale bill.

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