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Pelagic Birding Resources
A Traveler's Guide


These links are placed here to help people find resources about seabirds and primarily to locate pelagic birding trips. They are not to increase the hit rate on the web page. Please do not request the addition of your web page unless it has something to do with seabirds.
 
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Pelagic List pelagics@yahoogroups.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pelagics/
Sabirdnet mailing list
Sabirdnet@lists.ukzn.ac.za http://lists.ukzn.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sabirdnet
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Center For Coastal Studies
A private non-profit organization for research, conservation and education in the coastal and marine environment. Good section on birds and animals found on Stellwagen Bank.

National Marine Sanctuaries
Information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- how they were established, how they're managed, their scientific and educational programs, and the many exciting events that occur in them throughout the year. For information on Stellwagen Bank go to Marine Sanctuaries - Gerry E Studds Stellwagen Bank

Jeffreys Ledge
Map and information about Jeffreys Ledge a pelagic trip destingation off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine

Massachusetts Audubon Society
Massachusetts Audubon Society is the largest conservation organization in New England, concentrating its efforts on protecting the nature of Massachusetts for people and wildlife.

Captain Tom's Guide To New England Sharks
A website about the New England shark species and how to identify them - with heavy emphasis on the blue, thresher, shortfin mako and porbeagle.

Bill Drummond Birding Tours
Trips for birders to the exciting hot spots in North and South America. Bill sometimes includes pelagic trips.

http://web.mac.com/crossbillsbirding

Newburyport Birders

Birding events and trip reports from the Newburyport, Ma area.

www.newburyportbirders.com
 

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Brian Patteson, Inc. Pelagics
Pelagic birding trips off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia. Excellent photographs of pelagic birds.

See Life Paulagics
Ten or more pelagic trips from Cape May, Belmar, NJ, or Lewes,DE including winter trips for Great Skua and Alcids. PO Box 161; Green Lane, PA; 18054; (215) 234-6805; info@paulagics.com

The Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center http://capemaywhalewatch.com/
Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island
Natural history trips to destinations including Georges Bank, the Great South Channel, and shelf-edge canyons south of New England. Departures are from Montauk, NY with stops at New Bedford, MA. Deivision
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Long-tailed Jaeger Bird Guide Pelagics
Travel by boat off the beautiful coast of Oregon to Perpetua Bank. Trips March to January. Greg Gillson; 2367 S. Dogwood St.; Cornelius, OR 97113 (888)673-7890 PIN 0060; (503)844-6876
Laysan Albatross Westport Seabirds Pelagic Trips
Pelagic trips from Westport, Washington. to Grays Canyogreg@thebirdguide.comn ( January thru October). Summer trips head further offshore into deeper waters. POB 665; Westport WA 98595 (360)268-5222 Pmand@reachone.com
  Watching Seabirds From Land in the Pacific Northwest
A guide to seawatch sites in Washington, Oregon and northern California. Mike Patterson
http://home.pacifier.com/~mpatters/seabird/seabird.html

Whale Watching Seatle, WA area
Mosquito Fleet 1724 W. Marine View Drive, Everett, WA 98201 (425) 252-6800, (800) 325-ORCA (6722) Fax: (425) 339-8353, E-mail: info@whalewatching.com
http://www.whalewatching.com/

Los Angeles Audubon
Pelagic trips in southern California. Phil Sayre; Los Angeles Audubon Society; 7377 Santa Monica Blvd.;West Hollywood, CA 90046-6694; PelTrip@LAAudubon.org

Shearwater Journeys
Pelagic trips from Monterey Bay and other California ports.http://www.shearwaterjourneys.com/
Monterey Bay Whale Watch
This is a whale watch that operates in Monterey Bay that sounds very similar to the Boston area whale watches.  They have trips every day and the cost is reasonable.
Monterey Seabirds
Operates on the same boat as the Monterey Whalewatch. Pelagic trips for seabirds from Monterey. If you come on three trips the fourth is free. $70 per person . Register online or call 831.375-4658 Roger Wolfe for Monterey Seabirds Monterey Bay
Oceanic Society Expeditions
Trips from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands. June - Novenber. Ran trips to Midway Atoll. (See Wandering Birder) when it was open. Marcy England, Oceanic Society Expeditions; Fort Mason Center; Building E; San Francisco, CA 94123; (415)474-3385
Xantus' Murrelet by Todd McGrath

So Cal Pelagic Birding
New organization for pelagic birding and deep water expeditions from
San Diego  to the Mexican Coronados Islands (3 species of booby and a renegade Cory's Shearwater) and to deep water at the Continental Shelf edge, the land of albatross, pterodroma petrels and mega-rarities.  See their web page for current trips. http://www.socalbirding.com/
 

The Searcher
Southern California birding and whale watching trips offshore and to Baja. See their web page. http://www.bajawhale.com

The Searcher's owners, Celia Condit and Art Taylor, now host a Blog that reports notable pelagic sightings off Baja and Southern California. You can view it at
http://www.bajawhale.com/birdblog_new.asp.
 

Canada
Bird Studies Canada

Interesting site about Canadian birds. Go to International Programs and select Important Birding Areas Program for information on breeding sites of sebirds.
http://www.qc.ec.gc.ca/
Pilot Whales Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Whale Watch
http://www.cabottrail.com/whalewatching/
Wesley’s Whale Watching Pleasant Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia phone toll free: 1-866-999-4253 email: whalewatching@cabottrail.com
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New Zealand
Albatross Encounters

Formerly known as Oceanwings. Daily trips out of Kaikoura on the south island of New Zealand http://www.oceanwings.co.nz/
Nature Quest New Zealand
http://www.naturequest.co.nz
 
Specialists in custom designed, private guided birding, botanical &
nature tours throughout New Zealand and educational study programmes
for individuals, groups, societies, colleges & universities.
 
Australia
Wollongong Pelagics        Trip Report
SOSSA Lindsay Smith
Wollongong is just south of Sydney, Australia. Trips are scheduled on the 4th Saturday of each month .Additional trips are organized at popular times of the year. AU$65
http://www.sossa-international.org
For previous trip reports and selected images from this trip visit http://www.sossa-international.org/
Future Trips All Pelagic Trips from NSW are operated at no profit to the organizers, being operated as group boat charters for the benefit of all who wish to join us. If you would like to join one of these trips please contact us as detailed below: To make a booking on the SOSSA Wollongong Pelagic Trips that departs on the 4th Saturday of each month contact: SOSSA: Phone 02 4271 6004.
Email: sossa@tpg.com.au
Carl Loves Phone: 0427 423 500 fishing@wollongong.hotkey.net.au Pete Milburn: Mobile 0428 249 506, 02 6255 1313 (AH) or 02 6125 4173 (BH) Peter.Milburn@anu.edu.au
To make a booking for Sydney Pelagic Trip that departs from Rose Bay public jetty on the 2nd Saturday of each month contact Tony Palliser Ph; 02-99001678 (w), 02-94115272 (h) http://www.zip.com.au/~palliser
palliser@zip.com.au
To make a booking for Eden Pelagic Trips, which are run on the 5th Sunday of each month as it occurs, contact Barbara Jones or Ph (02) 6495 7390 jones@asitis.net.au
Note: SOSSA = Southern Oceans Seabird Study

http://www.sossa-international.org/index.htm

South Africa
Zest for Birds

Trevor Hardaker and John Graham's ZEST for BIRDSsite lists pelagic trips and bird guiding from Cape Town South Africa http://www.zestforbirds.co.za
South Africa
CapeTown Pelagics

A web site to encourage ecotourism and international birding interest in Africa, and more specifically our home region around Cape Town. Includes a seasonal table for all regularly occuring species off the Cape, based on over 300 pelagic seabird trips over the last 10 years. http://www.capetownpelagics.com
South Africa - Cape Town
Anne Albatross Cape Pelagic
Anne Gray pelagics out of Cape Town, South Africa.
 

 

Peru - Lima

Kolibri Expeditions

Peru deep sea pelagics 35 nmiles with chumming full day from Callao, Lima.Featured regular special birds are: Inca Tern, Peruvian Booby, Red-legged &Guanay Cormorant, Peruvian Diving-Petrel, Waved, Black-browed, Gray-headed,
Buller“s and Salvin“s Alabtroses, Markham“s, Ringed, White-vented,Wedge-rumped and Black Storm-Petrel, Swallow-tailed Gull and South American Tern.


Whale and Dolphin watching trips (5 hours) with speed boat from Callao,Lima. Dolphins almost always seen (Dusky, Common and Bottle-nosed). Humpback Whales migrate through in Nov, Feb-March and July. Other whales, such as
Blue, Sperm, Bryde“s, Fin and Sei Whale, as well as Risso“s Dolphin, Burmeister“s Porpoise and Orca can be seen any time of year. Whale and dolphin guarantee.

http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperukolibri

 

Seabirds and Cetaceans
A website by Tony Pym for those interested in pelagic trips.
http://www.seabirding.co.uk
 

Falkland Islands
Dr. Mike Bingham's work to save the penguins of the Falkland Island.
http://www.seabirds.org/index.htm
   
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