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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 |
Wilsons 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 |
Sabines Gull
|
1000+ |
Black-legged Kittiwake |
2 |
Common Tern
|
3 |
Arctic Tern
|
30 |
Common Murre
|
80 |
Pigeon Guillemot
|
2 |
Xantus Murrelet
|
1 |
Cassins Auklet
|
650 |
Rhinoceros Auklet
|
30 |
Tufted Puffin
|
3 |
Marine Mammals |
Dalls 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 |
* List is compiled of all sightings on the boat, some people miss a lot, nobody sees everything.
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