[obol] Newport pelagic

Bruce & Katie Dugger tinamou at comcast.net
Wed Aug 9 22:14:37 PDT 2006


 

Took a trip offshore from Newport to the NW about 50 miles on Tuesday.  We
didn't spend any time looking in the harbor at gulls.  Species list and
rough numbers outside the jetty:

Black-footed albatross 30
Sooty shearwater 100
Pink-footed shearwater 20
Fork-tailed storm-petrel  500
Pelagic cormorant
Brandt's cormorant
Northern Fulmar  350
Red phalarope 35
Cassin Auklet 40
Rhinoceros Auklet 2
Pigeon guillemot (didn't count)
Common Murre (didn't count)
Sabine's gull 3
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Pomerine Jaeger 1


Marine mammals:
Dall's porpoise
Harbor dolphin
Harbor seal
Humpback whale

Bruce Dugger



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