DATE: April 14-18, 2007
TRIP: Offshore Birding Trip
Report
Day 1
After leaving San Diego Harbor to just SE of Catalina Island
| Surf Scoter
Pacific Loon Common Loon Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Black Storm-Petrel Brown Pelican Brandt’s Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Bonaparte’s Gull |
55
42 2 8 48 68 1 1 2 9 9 1 1 18 |
California Gull
Western Gull Sabine’s Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern Royal Tern Elegant Tern Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Jaeger sp. Xantus’s Murrelet Cassin’s Auklet Rhinoceras Auklet |
lots
lots 3 2 1 28 12 29 17 8 3 9 1 11 |
Mammals: California Sea Lion, Bottlenosed Dolphin
Day 2
Spent in Oxnard harbor waiting out the weather
Day 3
Oxnard harbor to the east tip of Anacapa then along the south side of the Channel Islands west to the midpoint of Santa Rosa Island then SW to the 1000+ fathom waters about 20 miles east of the San Juan Seamount.
| Surf Scoter
Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Black-footed Albatross Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Brown Pelican Brandt’s Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Peregrine Falcon |
115
3 67 3 3 10 61 396 1 1 thousands thousands ~1000 36 1 |
Black Oystercatcher
Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte’s Gull Heermann’s Gull California Gull Western Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Sabine’s Gull Elegant Tern Pomarine Jaeger Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Xantus’s Murrelet Cassin’s Auklet Rhinoceras Auklet |
2
21 55 1 ~1k thousands 1 16 2 10 7 26 20 77 28 |
Some participants also saw 2 alternate plumaged Tufted Puffins fly by south of Anacapa Is.
Mammals: California Sea Lion, Northern Elephant Seal, (offshore) Common Bottlenosed Dolphin, Long-beaked Common Dolphin, Risso’s Dolphin, Dall’s Porpoise
Day 4
Cortez Banks to the Mushrooom and Sixtymile Bank
| Pacific Loon
Common Loon Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Leach’s Storm-Petrel Ashy Storm-Petrel Black Storm-Petre |
1
1 1 9 70 4 72 2 1 103 |
Red-billed Tropicbird
Red-necked Phalarope California Gull Western Gull Sabine’s Gull Pomarine Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Xantus’s Murrelet Cassin’s Auklet Rhinoceras Auklet |
1
50 1 130 11 6 1 3 153 12 |
Mammals: California Sea Lion, Northern Right Whale Dolphin (~200 off the Mushroom)
