DATE: September 3-7, 2007

TRIP: Offshore Birding Trip

Report

Day 1

After leaving San Diego Harbor to east end of Anacapa Island

Pink-footed Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Black-vented Shearwater

Black Storm-Petrel

Leach’s
Storm-Petrel

Least Storm-Petrel

Brown Pelican

Pelagic Cormorant

Red-necked Phalarope

33

3

5

188

2

17

232

1

169

Red Phalarope

Heermann’s Gull

Western Gull

Sabine’s Gull

Common Tern

Royal Tern

Elegant Tern

Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

11

40

142

2

51

9

11

2

5

Mammals: California Sea Lion, Long-beaked Common Dolphin, Risso’s Dolphin, Blue Whale, Humpback Whale, Bottlenosed Dolphin

Day 2

East end of Anacapa west to the South Point of Santa Rosa, then south to the east end of San Nicolas. Conditions were rough and windy.

Cook’s Petrel

Pink-footed Shearwater

Buller’s Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Black-vented Shearwater

Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Black Storm-Petrel

Brown Pelican

Brandt’s Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant

Black Oystercatcher

Surfbird

Common Murre

1

275

4

243

1

2

2

2000

670

3

5

10

3

Red-necked Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Heermann’s Gull

Western Gull

Sabine’s Gull

Royal Tern

Elegant Tern

South Polar Skua

Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Cassin’s Auklet

Rhinoceras Auklet

63

2
6
750
2
10
2
3
18
1
1
2

Day 3

East end of San Nicolas south to Tanner and Cortez Banks, then south-southwest to the 1000 fathom line. Sea anchored there.

Teal sp.

Cook’s Petrel

Pink-footed Shearwater

Buller’s Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Black-vented Shearwater

Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Black Turnstone

Red-necked Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Bonaparte’s Gull

Heermann’s Gull

Western Gull

Arctic Tern

Royal Tern

Elegant Tern

3

1(night)

44
3
47
1
313
1
21
41
55
5
200
3
21
2

“Summer Guadalupe” Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Black Storm-Petrel

Brown Pelican

Brandt’s Cormorant

Pacific Golden-Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Marbled Godwit

South Polar Skua

Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Xantus’s Murrelet

Cassin’s Auklet

Rhinoceras Auklet

White-winged Dove

40

24

55

13

1 (night)

1 (night)

3

3

9

1

2

3

4

1

1 (night)

Mammals: California Sea Lion, Northern Elephant Seal, Northern Fur Seal, Short-beaked Common Dolphin, Fin Whale

Day 4

Albacore grounds south of Cortez Banks to the Mushrooom and Sixtymile Bankk

Black-footed Albatross

Pink-footed Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Leach’s Storm-Petrel

“Summer Guadalupe” Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Black Storm-Petrel

Red-billed Tropicbird

Wandering Tattler

Marbled Godwit

Sanderling

Red-necked Phalarope

4

4

2

176

28

153

3

1

5

1

62

Red Phalarope

Western Gull

Sabine’s Gull

Pomarine Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Arctic Tern

Common Tern

Elegant Tern

Mourning Dove

Brown-headed Cowbird

55

74

1

7

3

5

169

1

1

1

Mammals: California Sea Lion, Blue Whale, Sperm Whale, Fin Whale, Baird’s Beaked Whale, Sei Whale, Pacific White-sided Dolphin

Photo Gallery