2018 Trip Results

2018 Westport Seabirds Trip Log	3 February	17 March	21 April	05 May	19 May	23 June	14 July	25 July	4 August	12 August	18 August	19 August	25 August	4 Sept.	14 Sept.	15 Sept.	16 Sept.	23 Sept.	29 Sept.	6 October
Trip Type	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Willapa Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon	Grays Canyon
White-Frt. Goose			2	102
Brant		1	152	22
Cackling Goose			300
Canada Goose
Goose sp.																		400
Green Winged Teal			117											20	12				1
N. Shovler															1
N. Pintail			12									3			30				15
Harlequin D	3
Surf Scoter	25	7	291	27	8		8	5	6	28	25	20	5	21	108	1	1	140	10	109
White-Wing Scoter	2	5	32	42	40	8	1			4	3				2		1	2	21	3
Long-tailed Duck	1
Red-B. Merganser		1
Red-T. Loon	1	8	10	5	5					1					1	2				2
Pacific Loon	30	50	610	311	22								1	1	2	3	2	8	6	6
Common Loon	4	2	16	11	6				1						2	5	5	5	3	6
loon sp													2					1		3
Red-necked Grebe	1		1										1
Western Grebe	3	1	12	21											5	1	13	24	12	33
Laysan Albatross	2	2		1	1					2	2							2
Black-footed Albatross	54	56	63	49	1730	393	90	44	158	172	84	128	148	58	10	8	17	19	2	36
N. Fulmar Dark	342	39	9	13	109	32	141	241	291	571	379	560	709	76	8	7	11	5	20	19
N. Fulmar Light	11	5		1	14	4	9	10	8	1	5	9	52	3		2	1	2
Pink-footed Shearwater			7	635	1973	746	106	74	2361	2665	3109	3006	342	245	57	349	192	36	67	109
Flesh-footed Shearwater											1	1								1
Buller’s Shearwater										3	2	2	13	4	3	6	77	52	18	61
Sooty Shearwater		45	1595	4350	16152	2935	2176	1003	555	5211	679	849	1646	10678	17055	12992	11606	530	4416	577
Short-tailed Shearwater		1	4	1		1	1	3	18	8	4	11	6	6	4	1	3
Manx Shearwater		1			1
Fork-tailed Storm-Pet.				18	171	27	96	65	69	50	11	214	23	23	64	48	12	58
Leach’s Storm-Pet.						5	71	44	2								8
Brown Booby	1
Murphy’s Petrel
Brandt’s Cormorant	4	9	36	40	84	28	104	124	83	110	234	25	131	133	88	50	151	157	99	35
Double-cr. Cormorant	20	6	3	7	21	12	7	20	19	12	17	6	12	5	8	5	5	16	13	24
Pelagic Cormorant	30	10	11	12	12	1	16	20	12	20	10	18	3	8	13	20	59	68	20	46
cormorant sp	100					70	40	100				1
Brown Pelican				12	122	523	1149	305	361	201	583	197	245	172	333	82	402	422	617	470
Ruddy Turnstone					1			2	1	1
Wandering Tattler								2	1	4	2		2		3	8	3	1	2
Whimbrel
Bar-tailed Godwit
Marbled Godwit									210	550	550	200	400	700	850	800	850	850	850	900
Guadalupe Murrelet
Black Turnstone	1		1							40	2	4	1	8	2			1
Surfbird	1		2	3				1		2							3		1
Great Blue Heron					1														1
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper							25
Red-necked Phalarope			88	251	150		11	7	15	34	23	63	32	7	82	21	11	21	4
Red Phalarope					10				1	132	49	34	3	13	150	15	15	22		1
phalarope sp								1	8	26	8		14	12		2	12		3	1
Shorebird species
South Polar Skua					2	1	6		2	1		1		2	1	1	1	3		2
Pomarine Jaeger	2	1	1	1	3		1	1	4	2	1	4	7	3	8	6	11	3	2	7
Parasitic Jaeger					15				1	4		1	2	1	13	2	4	4	1	1
Long-tailed Jaeger					1			1				3	4		4
jaeger sp					2				1	1		1		1	1		2	1		1
Common Murre	459	122	1053	155	193	101	141	404	784	522	283	1132	861	129	247	303	257	195	45	339
chicks									3	7	5	13	23	1	17	7	12	3
Pigeon Guillemot		8	16	22	14	16	20	12	16	8	20	3	8
Marbled Murrelet				2
Scripps’s Murrelet									2								2
Ancient Murrelet	4	1
Cassin’s Auklet	67	87	11	4	5	60	3	27	42	27	19	4	90	7	18	5	14	189	56	57
Parakeet Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet	23	136	19	31	84	99	31	82	105	65	43	8	21	13	28	26	13	37	22	7
Tufted Puffin			2							1		1
Black-legged Kittiwake	85	209		6
Sabine’s Gull			4	41	2765		1		6	76	9	25	67	16	45	10	12	629	4
Bonaparte’s Gull			12	25														2
Heerman’s Gull					1	305	454	812	78	301	253	296	191	52	28	110	155	266	10	5
Mew Gull	25	11	5	2						1						1			3	1
Ring Billed Gull				1				1	2	6	5
Western Gull	2											1
California Gull	3		4	62	24	10	17	163	330	661	578	351	238	437	309	1167	378	574	395	626
Herring Gull	104	29	15	25	1				2					1			8	3		61
Thayer’s Gull	9
Glaucous-winged Gull
GWWG	112	222	378	1251	638	468	585	297	626	221	736	166	259	362	407	406	820	573	682	354
gull sp
Caspian Tern						1				3	2	15	1	2	2		1
Common Tern				157	8
Arctic Tern				5	6					4				1	4	3	3
Elegant Tern
Small tern sp							2		5
Gray Wagtail
Peregrin Falcon																			1	1
Bald Eagle				1						1			1
Total Birds	1584	1069	4899	7727	24407	5846	5312	3871	6189	11760	7736	7378	5566	13221	20025	16476	15154	5326	7421	3905
Humpback Whale		1	2	14	16	13		2	1	3	1		9	5	14	51	10	6	1
Gray Whale	1	1	5								2		2		1		1
Orca Whale																				5
Harbor Porpoise	1		2	2	10	1	1	7	12	4	10	10	5	6	4		1	5	6
Dall’s Porpoise						6					2	1	25	15	5		7	6	3
Orca						8
Risso’s Dolphin						42		7
Pacific White-sided Dolphin			3		108	10				5		125	330	14		112
N. Right-whale Dolphin						15
Harbor Seal		2	1	1	1	1	5	2	4	1	1	1		1	1	1	1	15	1	30
Northern Fur Seal	4					1	1			2	2		7	3		3	1	7	2	2
Elephant Seal							2	1			1
California Sea-Lion		1	3	5	6	1	1		1	8	5			8	7	2	5	16	7	6
Northern (Steller’s) Sea-Lion	7	12	7	30	38	10	3		7	5	2	4	1	5	10	20	6	5	18	13
Blue Shark					Salmon Shark 1		2	5	1	6	2	14	1	4
Ocean Sunfish						1			3	3	21	2	6	4			2			6
Velella			light	L-M	L-M						Lt.	Lt.

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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.

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