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Official List for
the Pelagic Trip Aboard the Searcher - September 3 – September 7, 2007
Compiled by Jon Feenstra
Day 1, after leaving San Diego Harbor to east end of Anacapa Island
Pink-footed Shearwater 33
Sooty Shearwater 3
Black-vented Shearwater 5
Black Storm-Petrel 188
Leach’s Storm-Petrel 2
Least Storm-Petrel 17
Brown Pelican 232
Pelagic Cormorant 1
Red-necked Phalarope 169
Red Phalarope 11
Heermann’s Gull 40
Western Gull 142
Sabine’s Gull 2
Common Tern 51
Royal Tern 9
Elegant Tern 11
Pomarine Jaeger 2
Parasitic Jaeger 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 1
Pink-footed Shearwater 275
Buller’s Shearwater 4
Sooty Shearwater 243
Black-vented Shearwater 1
Leach’s Storm-Petrel 2
Black Storm-Petrel 2
Common Murre 1
Brown Pelican 2000
Brandt’s Cormorant 670
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Pelagic Cormorant 5
Black Oystercatcher 10
Surfbird 3
Red-necked Phalarope 63
Red Phalarope 2
Heermann’s Gull 6
Western Gull 750
Sabine’s Gull 2
Royal Tern 10
Elegant Tern 2
South Polar Skua 3
Pomarine Jaeger 18
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Cassin’s Auklet 1
Rhinoceras Auklet 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. 3
Cook’s Petrel 1 (night)
Pink-footed Shearwater 44
Buller’s Shearwater 3
Sooty Shearwater 47
Black-vented Shearwater 1
Leach’s Storm-Petrel 313
"Summer Guadalupe” Storm-Petrel 40
Black Storm-Petrel 24
Brown Pelican 55
Brandt’s Cormorant 13
Pacific Golden-Plover 1 (night)
Semipalmated Plover 1 (night)
Marbled Godwit 3
Black Turnstone 1
Red-necked Phalarope 21
Red Phalarope 41
Bonaparte’s Gull 55
Heermann’s Gull 5
Western Gull 200
Arctic Tern 3
Royal Tern 21
Elegant Tern 2
South Polar Skua 3
Pomarine Jaeger 9
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Long-tailed Jaeger 2
Xantus’s Murrelet 3
Cassin’s Auklet 4
Rhinoceras Auklet 1
White-winged Dove 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 Bank
Black-footed Albatross 4
Pink-footed Shearwater 4
Sooty Shearwater 2
Leach’s Storm-Petrel 176
“Guadalupe” Storm-Petrel 28
Black Storm-Petrel 153
Red-billed Tropicbird 3
Wandering Tattler 1
Marbled Godwit 5
Sanderling 1
Red-necked Phalarope 62
Red Phalarope 55
Western Gull 74
Sabine’s Gull 1
Pomarine Jaeger 7
Long-tailed Jaeger 3
Arctic Tern 5
Common Tern 169
Elegant Tern 1
Mourning Dove 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Mammals: California Sea Lion, Blue Whale, Sperm Whale, Fin Whale, Baird’s
Beaked Whale, Sei Whale, Pacific White-sided Dolphin