Subject: Wesport Pelagic Sightings - Sept. 12th & 13th
Date: Sep 15 17:22:43 1998
From: "Gene Revelas" - grevelas at striplin.com


Trips encountered one fishing vessel on 12 Sept., none on 13th - see
fulmar, Pink-foot, gull numbers. Species variety not bad. Numbers of
phalaropes,
jaegers and especially alcids show that the effects of the much
talked-about La Nina are still to come.

TW

Westport offshore birds 12 Sep. 13 Sep.
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Black-footed Albatross 53 81
Laysan Albatross 1 1
Northern Fulmar 1080 198
Pink-footed Shearwater 503 194
Buller's Shearwater 19 11
Sooty Shearwater 3691 433
Short-tailed Shearwater 1 0
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 34 80
Red Phalarope 4 4
Red-necked Phalarope 1 13
phalarope sp. 3 6
Pomarine Jaeger 6 10
Parasitic Jaeger 2 4
Long-tailed Jaeger 1 1
jaeger sp. 3 0
South Polar Skua 1 1
Bonaparte's Gull 8 0
Heermann's Gull 435 115
California Gull 972 106
Western/Glaucous-w. Gull 1038 475
Black-legged Kittiwake 5 6
Sabine's Gull 10 37
Common Tern 0 4
Arctic Tern 4 15
Common Murre 106 80
Pigeon Guillemot 2 0
Xantus' Murrelet 0 2
Cassin's Auklet 0 2
Rhinoceros Auklet 3 13
Tufted Puffin 0 0