Fall Pelagic Results 2002

 

SEABIRDING Pelagic Reports

Date by Day Location Common Name Count

Saturday, August 31, 2002 - Manteo, NC

Black-capped Petrel 17

Cory's Shearwater 877 +

Greater Shearwater 84

Audubon's Shearwater 86

Wilson's Storm-Petrel 1,208

Red-necked Phalarope 1

South Polar Skua 1

Pomarine Jaeger 1

Common Tern 7

Sooty Tern 39

Black Tern 3

Bobolink 1

Pilot Whale (prob. Short-finned) 9 +

Sunday, September 01, 2002 - Manteo, NC

Black-capped Petrel 7

Cory's Shearwater 725

Greater Shearwater 24

Audubon's Shearwater 84

Wilson's Storm-Petrel 947

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel 1

Least Sandpiper 1

Red-necked Phalarope 10

Pomarine Jaeger 2

Sooty Tern 5

Black Tern 2

Pilot Whale (prob. Short-finned) 70 +

Bottlenose Dolphin 2

Saturday, September 07, 2002 - Virginia Beach, VA

Cory's Shearwater 9

Audubon's Shearwater 32

shearwater sp. 1

Wilson's Storm-Petrel 258

Red-necked Phalarope 8

Pomarine Jaeger 4

Long-tailed Jaeger 7

jaeger sp. 4 +

Common Tern 4

"Commic" Tern 5

Black Tern 124

Bottlenose Dolphin 17 +

Leatherback Turtle 3

Ocean Sunfish 5 +

Monday, September 16, 2002 - Hatteras, NC

Trinidade (Herald) Petrel 2 light morphs

Black-capped Petrel 26

Pterodroma sp. 3

Cory's Shearwater 128

Audubon's Shearwater 29

Wilson's Storm-Petrel 68

yellowlegs sp. 26

Red-necked Phalarope 44

Common Tern 1

Sooty Tern 9

Black Tern 10

Bottlenose Dolphin 36

Loggerhead Turtle 1

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - Hatteras, NC

Black-capped Petrel 63

Cory's Shearwater 126

Audubon's Shearwater 17

Wilson's Storm-Petrel 11

Peregrine Falcon 1

Pomarine Jaeger 8

Herring Gull 1

Common Tern 1

sterna sp. (white) 2

Sperm Whale 1

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin 3

Bottlenose Dolphin 27