Pelagic Trips 2009 Outside New England

This is a new page to list trips travelers may be interested in.

Pacific Coast

 
SOCal Pealgcis - 2009 PELAGIC BIRDING TRIPS out of Southern California are now
listed on http://www.SoCalBirding.com
 
Trips include:
 
1. Five-day SEARCHER Deep Water Expeditions in April and September
(Murphy's Petrel, Bulwer's Petrel, Cook's Petrel, Red-billed
Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird)
 
2. Buena Vista Audubon Weekend Trips on GRANDE to deep water 120
miles off San Diego to the Cortez Bank and continental shelf edge
 
3. Los Angeles Audubon's Day Trips on the fast catamaran CONDOR
EXPRESS to the San Juan Seamount and continental shelf edge
 
4. San Diego Bird Festival Pelagic Trips to the bird-rich Nine-mile
bank in San Diego waters and the Los Coronados Islands off the coast
of Baja to see the Brown Booby colony.
 
5. Los Angeles Audubon day trips to Santa Cruz Island (Island Scrub
Jay) and the Palos Verdes Escarpment
 
6. Sea & Sage Audubon pelagic trips from Dana Point in Orange County
 
Working together, the four Audubon's have coordinated schedules to
provide excellent pelagic trip coverage throughout Southern
California for all of 2009. Pelagic Trips are scheduled for every
month but August and December.
 
Visit http://www.SoCalBirding.com for schedules, complete
itineraries, trip reports, status and distribution information, trip
photos, leaders and trip preparation tips.
 
--
W. Terry Hunefeld
Life is short.
Seabird often.
 
Seabirding Trips From San Diego
Buena Vista Audubon Society
http://www.SoCalBirding.com
Los Coronados Islands
Nine-mile, Thirty-mile, Sixty-mile Banks
Cortes & Tanner Banks
Channel Islands

Oregon

Bird Guide Pelagics has create a blog to report : recent trip results, future trip announcements, status and distribution articles, ID pointers, and news concerning West Coast seabirds. Recently posted topics are:
 
Trip results: Perpetua Bank, October 3, 2009
Laysan Albatross search trip: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Manx Shearwater status in Oregon
White-chinned Petrel in California
Solander's Petrel in British Columbia
Radio-tagged Short-tailed Albatross visits Oregon
 
Take a look and bookmark this page:
http://oregonseabirds.blogspot.com/
 
Greg Gillson
The Bird Guide, Inc.
http://thebirdguide.com/pelagics/

 
North Carolina and Texas Trips

Save the Dates - Country Girl, North Carolina and Texas Pelagics
Posted by: "live4birds@aol.com" live4birds@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:15 pm ((PST))
 
Captain Allan Foreman will be running birding trips on the?Country Girl out of Manteo, North Carolina on May 30, 31, and June 1 and August 15, 16, 17.? Experienced friendly leaders will be on board to help you.? Cost is?$130.00 per trip.? Call? 252-473-5577 (business hours) for reservations, email questions to me at live4birds@aol.com.?
 
Texas trips will be out of South Padre Island on the Osprey II on July 25, August 29, and September 19.? Save the dates, price and registration information will be coming shortly.?
 
 
Mary Gustafson
Mission, Texas