How many Pelagic Species have you seen? (1 Viewer)

Here's my tubenose list to date:

1. Laysan Albatross (my 400th life bird)
2. Black-footed Albatross
3. Northern Fulmar
4. Pink-footed Shearwater
5. Flesh-footed Shearwater
6. Buller's Shearwater
7. Sooty Shearwater
8. Short-tailed Shearwater
9. Black-vented Shearwater
10. Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
11. Leach's Storm-Petrel

I have yet to take a pelagic trip outside of my native California, and even here I still have a lot of catching up to do (the 3 SoCal storm-petrels - Least, Black, & Ashy; far offshore gadfly petrels; tropicbirds; boobies; several alcids). Of course, a lot of that is due to me still lacking a car and a license, both of which (combined with an income from a job) will greatly increase the threat I'll pose to other local birders.

I'm just glad I didn't inherit my mom's apparently vicious seasickness.

My simple answer is... not enough!

For me (using the latest IOC, 3.4 by the looks)
- Wandering (Snowy) Albatross
- Antipodean Albatross (race gibsoni)
- Sooty Albatross
- Black-browed Albatross
- Campbell Albatross
- Shy Albatross (def. cauta and almost certainly steadi)
- Grey-headed Albatross
- Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Southern Giant-Petrel
- Northern Giant-Petrel
- Southern Fulmar
- Cape Petrel
- Antarctic Prion
- Slender-billed Prion
- Great-winged Petrel (macroptera and gouldi)
- Soft-plumaged Petrel
- Streaked Shearwater
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Sooty Shearwater
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Flesh-footed Shearwater
- Hutton's Shearwater
- Little Shearwater (tunneyi
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel
- White-faced Storm-Petrel (dulciae)
- Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

Needs work, but not too bad for all off SW Western Australia

Check your Leach's John. You could have one of the SoCal specialities. http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=2331380&postcount=1

avesjohn said:

11. Leach's Storm-Petrel

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Chris

borealowl47 said:

None,live in Manitoba.

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:t: In the same boat, landlocked country.

What is a boat? o
LOL of course a boat is a floating house tied up to a bank of Danube, and swallows nest on it.

On the other hand, a phalarope was recently reported from one of the small lakes in our country, which is not the first record, and jaegers were also reported a few times. I am not sure where gulls belong; in theory they may be on sea coast one winter and here in the city the other winter.