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Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Species List from pelagic trip to Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Septebmer 29, 2002 compiled by Rich Stallcup


Birds Abundance
Black-footed Albatross 20
Pink-footed Shearwater 58
Buller's Shearwater 14
Black-vented Shearwater 2
Flesh-footed Shearwater 2
Sooty Sheawater 110
Streaked Shearwater ( 1st for Marin County, and
CBNMS and 9th for the Northeast Pacific)
1
Wilson’s Storm petrel 1
Black Storm-petrel 1
Ashy Storm-petrel 15
Merlin (seen 12 miles SSW of Bodega Head) 1
Red Phalarope 120
Red-necked Phalarope 50
Pomarine Jaeger 3
Parasitic Jaeger 2
Long-tailed Jaeger 6
South Polar Skua
9
Sabine’s Gull
1000+
Black-legged Kittiwake 2
Common Tern
3
Arctic Tern
30
Common Murre
80
Pigeon Guillemot
2
Xantus Murrelet
1
Cassin’s Auklet
650
Rhinoceros Auklet
30
Tufted Puffin
3
Marine Mammals
Dall’s Porpoise
10
Pacific White-sided Dolphin
4
Blue Whale
12
Humpback Whale
35
Five pinniped species
Fish
Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) 3
Blue Shark
1
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* List is compiled of all sightings on the boat, some people miss a lot, nobody sees everything.



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