Cape Horn & Straits of Magellan Pelagic Cruise - Seabird Bonanza!!

This is what it's all about! We are going to be sea-watching from a stable, comfortable fully working cruise ship where all the food and beverages are included and we'll be staying in comfortable cabins for 14 nights. And your non-birding partners can come along and only pay for the cost of the cabin (there's no Zoothera fee for non-birding partners). And currently it only costs a £50 deposit per person to secure your cabin and there's a sale so inside cabins are approx £1300 per person - and that includes meals and some drinks such as tea, coffee, water, lemonade etc.

But back to the birds. Just look at this mouth-watering list of potential species and i've got some photos from a while ago when I was lucky enough to be on a ship crossing the Drake Passage between Ushuaia and the Antarctic Peninsula..........

Northern Royal Albatross

Southern Royal Albatross

Yellow-nosed Albatross

Black-browed Albatross

Light-mantled Albatross (rare)

Wandering (Snowy) Albatross

Wandering (Antipodes) Albatross

Chatham Albatross

Salvin’s Albatross

Buller's Albatross

Grey-headed Albatross

Southern Fulmar

Cape Petrel

Northern Giant Petrel

Southern Giant Petrel

Soft-plumaged Petrel

Cape Petrel

Masatierra Petel

Juan Fernandez Petrel

Stejneger’s Petrel

Kerguelen Petrel (rare)

Slender-billed Prion

Westland Petrel

White-chinned Petrel

Subantarctic Little Shearwater

Cape Verde Shearwater

Pink-footed Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Great Shearwater

Grey-backed Storm-Petrel

Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

White-faced Storm-Petrel

Fuegian (Wilson's) Storm-Petrel

Pincoya Storm-Petrel

Magellanic Diving-Petrel

Common Diving-Petrel

Peruvian Diving-Petrel

Brown Skua

Chilean Skua

Long-tailed Skua

It's a great list of possibilities and hard to imagine seeing thousand upon thousand of Sooty Shearwaters and sailing past an island where 90% of the world population of Pink-footed Shearwaters breed, or seeing hundreds of albatross every day!

See the day-by-day itinerary here - Cruise Daily Itinerary

See the Princess Cruises tour info - Coral Princess Info

Black-browed Albatross is common

Black-browed Albatross

A Giant Petrel sp with a backdrop of snow-covered mountains in the Beagle Channel

South American Tern

There's fabulous scenery as well

Cape Petrel

Gentoo Penguins can be seen at Volunteer Point nr Port Stanley

A number of cetaceans are possible. This is Humpback Whale but Sei Whale is also possible.

A Light-mantled Albatross being photo-bombed by a Black-browed Albatross

We will count ourselves very fortunate to see a Light-mantled Albatross

A flurry of South American Terns in the Beagle Channel

Southern Giant Petrel

More impressive scenery around Tierra del Fuego

This is what we want... Wandering Albatross

Northern Giant Petrel

Southern Giant Petrel

Southern Royal Albatross

Snowy (Wandering) Albatross

All photos copyright Nick Bray/Zoothera Birding unless otherwise stated.

If you have any questions or need clarification on this tour please email the Zoothera Birding office on: info@zootherabirding.com 

We currently have 5 spaces left, but at present you don't need to pay a deposit to Zoothera, just register your interest with the Zoothera office.

Let's go birding!