Hyannis to Hydrographer/Veatch Canyon pelagic (General), Nantucket, Massachusetts, US
Sep 24, 2016 5:30 AM – Sep 25, 2016 6:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
Comments:     BBC Pelagic. Consolidated checklist.
32 species (+16 other taxa)

Canada Goose  6
Wood Duck  3
Common Eider  1
Surf Scoter  9
Black Scoter  5
scoter sp.  10
duck sp.  45
Common Loon  6
Northern Fulmar  1
Cory’s Shearwater  44
Cory’s Shearwater (borealis)  47
Great Shearwater  138
Cory’s/Great Shearwater  31
Sooty Shearwater  4
Audubon’s Shearwater  3
black-and-white shearwater sp.  1
shearwater sp.  1
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel  249
White-faced Storm-Petrel  4
Leach’s Storm-Petrel (Leach’s)  13
storm-petrel sp.  1
Northern Gannet  8
Double-crested Cormorant  26
peep sp.  2
Red-necked Phalarope  181
Red Phalarope  8
Red-necked/Red Phalarope  6
phalarope sp.  7
shorebird sp.  1
South Polar Skua  1
Pomarine Jaeger  7
Parasitic Jaeger  8
Long-tailed Jaeger  13
Parasitic/Long-tailed Jaeger  2
jaeger sp.  4
Black-legged Kittiwake  1
Laughing Gull  3
Herring Gull  93
Herring Gull (American)  21
Lesser Black-backed Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  19
Black Tern  16
Sterna sp.  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Gray Catbird  1
Cedar Waxwing  1
passerine sp.  3

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32239410

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