Trips 2010

White-faced Storm-petrel from 2009 BBC trip Photo by Jeremiah Trimble

SoCAL Pelagics - All 2010 PELAGIC BIRDING TRIPS out of Southern California are now  listed on http://www.SoCalBirding.com 

Northumberland, UK, pelagics 2010 See  Pelagic trips outside New England page.

Send trip announcements to the web master.  EmmaleeT@msn.com

Reports 2010

Reports 2010 BBC

Wilson's Storm-petrel by Jeff Slovin

NH coast and Jeffreys Ledge Still Good in 2010- whales and birds Fourth of July: Cory's, Greater, Manx, Sooty SW, WSP, whales and dolphin
Birds, Whales and a Leatherback Turtle from Granite State WW  NH
  Read their sightings reports   http://www.whales-rye.com/

Fippines Ledge Report from Eric Masterson

May 31 NH Audubon Pelagic to Jeffreys Ledge

Conservation

Gulf Oil Spill greatest Environmental Disaster in US
I saw an article which claims that less than 1% of cleaned birds survived.  Will the oil reach the shelf edge off New England? 

Sharks
There are 15 species of sharks that may be seen in New England waters.  How many can you identify. To improve your identification skills see  Captain Tom's Guide To New England Sharks

Jeffreys Ledge and the Herring Alliance
By now we all know the whales and birds on Jeffreys Ledge were spectacular this summer. Why? Does it have something to do with Herring stocks and fishing in the Gulf of Maine.   Read about it.  Herring Fishing and Jeffreys Ledge

Be sure to go to this web site and watch the video.
http://www.herringalliance.org

See Steve Mirick's notes from 23 Jeffreys Ledge trips from 1993 to 2009,

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

There is an island of plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean Gyre that is twice the size of Texas. It is composed of plastic fishing nets, water bottles, plastic bottle caps, plastic bags. Read about it and watch a video. 

To see the heartbreaking effects on baby Albatrosses on Midway Atoll http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

Of course the Atlantic has plenty of garbage too. Helium balloons pepper our coastal waters.  Can't people sell real estate without polluting the ocean with balloons?

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.

Updated Sea Turtle Page and new pages for : Blue Whale, Other Creatures  See Other Marine Animals

Steve Mirick compares NH pelagics then and now.

Pelagic Trips outside New England   More information for traveling seabirders.

New blog about Oregon pelagics  http://oregonseabirds.blogspot.com/

Separating dark - white rumped Storm-petrels in New England waters - Get ready for 2010

Webmaster Emmalee Tarry

I am back in New Hampshire for the summer and looking forward to our local pelagic trips.  I went to Gambel on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska for a week after a wonderful 3 day San Diego pelagic where we saw 173 Cook's Petrels.

Some sections of the web page are under revision resulting in broken links.  Please be patient.

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