Pelagic Adventure Bird list

Homer-Kodiak Pelagic Adventure

Round trip on Alaska Marine Highway Ferry M/V Tustumena

Saturday, September 29- Sunday, September 30, 2012

Participants: Joe Staab, Gary Lyons, Carol Griswold

Bird list:

Swan (60, migrating low over ocean, far away)

Mallard

Black Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Surf Scoter

Harlequin Duck

Long-tailed Duck

Red-throated Loon

Pacific Loon

Red-necked Grebe

Northern Fulmar

Sooty Shearwater

Short-tailed Shearwater

Buller's Shearwater

Pelagic Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Bald Eagle

Black Oystercatcher

Mew Gull

Glaucous Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Black-legged Kittiwake

Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger

Common Murre

Pigeon Guillemot

Cassin's Auklet

Parakeet Auklet

Horned Puffin

Tufted Puffin

Rock Pigeon

Belted Kingfisher

Northwestern Crow

Common Raven

Also:

Steller Sea Lion

Dall's Porpoise

Humpback Whale

Fin Whale

Other species spotted in Homer:

Trumpeter Swan (Homer, 2 adults, 4 cygnets)

Cackling Geese

Greater White-fronted Geese

Shoveler

Pheasant

Greater Yellowlegs

Gray Jay

Magpie

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Robin