Spent the day at sea sailing south and turned up an amazing tally of seabirds today. The recent rough weather elsewhere must have pushed a few different species our way as you will see… But what is really brilliant are the views you get from the ship and also that we could use our scopes as well. In between all of the activity, we took it in turns to go indoors to get a coffee and food, snacks, and more food, lunch, more coffee...... You ge the picture! And it was a long day of seawatching from sunset at 07:40 to sunset at 8pm, but what a day!
1000+ Sooty Shearwater
18 Pink-footed Shearwater
1 Manx Shearwater
8 Westland Petrel
34 White-chinned Petrel
64 Westland/White-chinned Petrels
260 Fuegian Storm-Petrel
1 Grey-backed Storm-Petrel…..!!!!!
4 White-faced Storm-Petrel
30 Southern Giant Petrel
6 Northern Giant Petrel
70 Giant Petrel sp.
27 Stejneger’s Petrel
1 Juan Fernandez Petrel
2 Gould’s Petrel…!!!!!
8 Chilean Skua
2 Common Diving-Petrel
22 Snowy Wandering Albatross
2 Antipodean Wandering Albatross
17 Salvin’s Albatross
147 Black-browed Albatross
2 Grey-headed Albatross
6 Southern Royal Albatross
2 Northern Royal Albatross
6 Imperial Shag
Northern Giant Petrel
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| Southern Giant Petrel |
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| Antipodean Wandering Albatross |
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| Masatierra Petrel |
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| Snowy Wandering Albatross |
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| Gould's Petrel |
It was certainly an epic day.
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