Ferries evidently make for good birding. (1 Viewer)

[Steve Lister]

The ferry between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura is very good for shearwaters but sadly too many "could that have been a ..." moments with the distance

The longer distance ferry routes in the Canaries can be good b ut the longest ones tend to include a lot of darkness. Tenerife to Fuerteventura in August was productive the one time I did it a very long time ago.

 

[earlytorise]

I don't know if anyone on this forum is the restless type, but I am that. A lot of the people I know watch the sea during the ferry ride to Po Toi - "the Scillies of Hong Kong" - all for a very occasional faraway phalarope or Greater Crested Tern. (The seabirds are necessarily very scant there, to see more of them one should go much further out.) I'd rather chat with my mates during that time.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

The ferry between Cape May, NJ, and Lewes, DE, is nicknamed the "poor man's pelagic". Of course, real deep water species are unlikely, but there might be something unusual, especially after a storm.

 

[Ruff-Leg]

The ferry between Cape May, NJ, and Lewes, DE, is nicknamed the "poor man's pelagic". Of course, real deep water species are unlikely, but there might be something unusual, especially after a storm.

On the Chesapeake side of the Delmarva, I've had Wilson's Storm Petrels in June from the ferry that runs between Point Lookout to Smith Island.

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

In the tropics, the ferries across the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica are quite decent. I've seen Black and Least Storm-petrels and Blue-footed Booby from one.

Gulf of Nicoya (Puntarenas/Paquera ferry), Puntarenas, Costa Rica - eBird Hotspot

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