W. Ross Silcock


New Zealand Land and Pelagic Bird Tours


Huia Huia Huia
Mottled Petrel by Phil Swanson, Chatham Island Pigeon (Parea) by Stephen J. Dinsmore, and NZ Storm-Petrel by Phil Swanson

FOR MANY MORE BRILLIANT PHOTOS BY PHIL SWANSON AND OTHERS, CHECK OUR GALLERY!

Please contact me at silcock@rosssilcock.com for permission to copy or purchase copies of any of the gallery photos.


New Zealand Land and Pelagic Bird Tours
P.O. Box 57
Tabor, IA 51653
silcock@rosssilcock.com

Huia Huia
Ross Silcock 2009 (left); Ross and Sav Saville, Milford Sound 2009.


Latest updates

Sep 11, 2011: Updated Pacific Checklist from various sources.
Feb 27, 2011: Updated Pacific Checklist with OSNZ Checklist (2010).
Nov 23, 2010: Updated Pacific Checklist with new paper by Pratt et al (2010) for Micronesia.
Nov 14, 2010: Updated Pacific Checklist with miscellaneous sightings from various sources.
Mar 7, 2010: Posted photo of unusually-marked white Eurasian Collard-Dove here.
Feb 23, 2010: Updated Pacific Checklist from Pyle and Pyle 2009 for Hawaiian Is (all species now complete).
Jan 31, 2010: Major overhaul of Gallery with about 220 photos from 2009 trip by extraordinary photographer Phil Swanson, Omaha, Nebraska. Check out the brilliant phots of tubenoses!
Jan 24, 2010: Updated Gallery with photos from 2009 trip by Linda Rudolph.
Jan 7, 2010: Updated Pacific Checklist from various sources, primarily Wanless et al (2009) for Clarion Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago.
Dec 30, 2009: Updated NZ Trips with 2009 Trip Report, including Annotated Checklist.



A Birder's Checklist of the Birds of the Pacific Region

Pacific Checklist Bibliography

       This is a list of the 1346 species that have occurred in the Pacific Region as defined here. It is annotated with taxonomic and distributional information.

CV
Ross Silcock's CV.











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