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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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Firends of Maine Seabird Islands - A new organization to protect the breeding birds on the Maine's Offshore Islands. Read their website. www.maineseabirds.org Join them. Breeding seabirds need all the protection they can get.
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SEANET http://seanetters.wordpress.com/ The Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET) is a citizen science program that brings together interdisciplinary researchers and citizen scientists in a long-term collaborative effort to identify and mitigate threats to marine birds. SEANET volunteers conduct beached bird surveys in order to identify and record information about bird mortality along the east coast of the United States. Data collected by hundreds of SEANET volunteers are used to examine the spatial pattern of bird carcass deposition and how it varies across time Web blogg contains information about identifying beached birds and even a beached bird quiz.
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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. |
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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 |
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Jeffreys Ledge Map and information about Jeffreys Ledge a pelagic trip destingation off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine |
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New Hampshire
Audubon
http://www.nhaudubon.org/index.php Pelagic trips under Programs- Audult Programs |
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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. |
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Maine Audubon Society
http://www.maineaudubon.org/ Fall pelagic from Bar Harbor produces Great Skua regularly. |
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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. |
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Seven Seas Whalewatch Gloucester, MA Whale watch out of Gloucester, MA. See their web page for excellent pictures of whales and seabirds. They also have a blog that gives recent sightings of whales. Trips to the northern edge of Stellwagen Bank. |
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Bill Drummond Birding
Tours Trips for birders to the exciting hot spots in North and South America. Bill sometimes includes pelagic trips. |
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Newburyport Birders Birding events and trip reports from the Newburyport, Ma area. |
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Brian Patteson, Inc.
Pelagics Pelagic birding trips off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia. Excellent photographs of pelagic birds. |
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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 |
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The Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center http://capemaywhalewatch.com/ |
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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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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 This pelagic trip taught the world to use beef suet as chum. Thanks Greg! |
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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 |
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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/ |
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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 |
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Shearwater
Journeys Pelagic trips from Monterey Bay and other California ports.http://www.shearwaterjourneys.com/ |
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Monterey Bay Whale
Watch and Monterey Bay Seabirds 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. Contact them for the Seabirds trips. |
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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 |
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So Cal Pelagic Birding
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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 |
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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/ |
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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/ |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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South Africa - Cape Town Anne Albatross Cape Pelagic Anne Gray pelagics out of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Peru - Lima 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, http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperukolibri
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Seabirds and Cetaceans A website by Tony Pym for those interested in pelagic trips. http://www.seabirding.co.uk |
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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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