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
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