





Westport Seabirds | Jan | Mar | Apr | Jul | Aug | Aug | Aug | Aug | Aug | Aug | Sep | Sep | Sep | Sep | Sep |
2001 | 27 | 24 | 14 | 28 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 25 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 29 |
Black-footed Albatross | 1 | 10 | 79 | 94 | 230 | 84 | 104 | 82 | 140 | 79 | 75 | 39 | 76 | 109 | 129 |
Laysan Albatross | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Short-tailed Albatross | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northern Fulmar | 263 | 132 | 106 | 228 | 32 | 30 | 240 | 418 | 229 | 186 | 310 | 45 | 127 | 74 | 105 |
Pink-footed Shearwater | 1 | 1 | 1 | 251 | 529 | 668 | 422 | 555 | 380 | 859 | 586 | 451 | 979 | 2536 | 147 |
Flesh-footed Shearwater | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Buller’s Shearwater | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 82 | 67 | 11 | 190 | 40 |
Sooty Shearwater | 0 | 0 | 2695 | 1563 | 9415 | 6007 | 8258 | 2766 | 2590 | 2692 | 7602 | 296 | 1810 | 10398 | 2710 |
Short-tailed Shearwater | 11 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 4 |
Manx Shearwater | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel | 0 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 10 | 14 | 25 | 65 | 55 | 514 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
Leach’s Storm-Petrel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 192 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Red Phalarope | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Red-necked Phalarope | 0 | 0 | 24 | 49 | 74 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 44 | 24 | 21 | 0 | 6 |
Pomarine Jaeger | 1 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 26 | 48 | 23 | 36 | 34 | 17 | 13 | 147 | 25 |
Parasitic Jaeger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Long-tailed Jaeger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
jaeger (sp.) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Polar Skua | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 3 |
Bonaparte’s Gull | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mew Gull | 24 | 190 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
Heermann’s Gull | 0 | 0 | 0 | 301 | 108 | 636 | 530 | 700 | 550 | 500 | 177 | 142 | 225 | 316 | 275 |
California Gull | 0 | 0 | 29 | 124 | 504 | 2059 | 2653 | 2278 | 2348 | 919 | 648 | 241 | 678 | 3952 | 1320 |
Herring Gull | 10 | 116 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Thayer’s Gull | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Western, G-wing Gulls | 222 | 451 | 1161 | 1878 | 593 | 567 | 910 | 675 | 318 | 447 | 502 | 294 | 500 | 1185 | 327 |
Black-legged Kittiwake | 360 | 315 | 332 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 32 | 45 |
Sabine’s Gull | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 95 | 9 | 40 | 22 | 6 | 92 | 256 | 57 | 396 | 0 | 43 |
Arctic Tern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 40 | 36 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Common Tern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Common Murre | 707 | 110 | 128 | 609 | 268 | 845 | 2480 | 994 | 1362 | 218 | 1804 | 119 | 396 | 189 | 568 |
Pigeon Guillemot | 0 | 102 | 14 | 48 | 87 | 60 | 52 | 69 | 62 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Marbled Murrelet | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Xantus’s Murrelet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Ancient Murrelet | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Cassin’s Auklet | 91 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 3 | 45 | 44 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 105 |
Rhinocerous Auklet | 5 | 58 | 27 | 147 | 15 | 78 | 458 | 121 | 196 | 166 | 123 | 29 | 31 | 8 | 39 |
Tufted Puffin | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total Birds | 1731 | 1560 | 4795 | 5438 | 12268 | 11231 | 16780 | 8908 | 8351 | 6871 | 12292 | 1880 | 5396 | 22506 | 5909 |
Humpbacked Whale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gray Whale | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Grampus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Harbor Porpoise | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 4 |
Pac. White-sided Dolphin | 0 | 12 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 41 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 330 |
Dall’s Porpoise | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
Killer Whale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northern Sea Lion | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
California Sea Lion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Northern Fur Seal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Harbor Seal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
Ocean Sunfish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 8 |
Blue Shark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Thresher Shark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Leatherback Turtle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All of our trips go offshore to one of three deep water canyons approximately 28-35 miles offshore. These canyons are just beyond the edge of the continental shelf and reach water depths in excess of 2,500 feet.
Birds that can be expected on most or all April – October trips: Black-footed Albatross, Northern Fulmar, Sooty Shearwater, Pink-footed Shearwater, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Red-necked and Red Ph...
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