Pelagic Lifer bird list (Pelagic birds, not only during planned Pelagics)
In no particular order, but rarer birds near the top.
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Time on the Water, including Pelagics and other organised tours to observe sea birds.
Birding Pelagic in the North Atlantic Ocean presentation available.
Cory’s Shearwater
3 Individuals – 2016-09-10, 2022-07-31 & 2022-08-14
Sabine’s Gull
4 Individuals – 2021-08-18, 2021-09-05 & 2022-09-24
Great Skua
6 Individuals – 2016-09-10, 2021-08-01, 2021-08-18, 2021-09-10 & 2021-09-18
South Polar Skua
Over 40 Individuals – 2017, 2018 (2), 2019 (2), 2020 (2), 2021 (2), 2022 (6) & 2023 (4)
Long-Tailed Jaeger
7 Individuals – 2019-08-24, 2023-07-20, 2023-07-29, 2-23-08-10 & 2023-09-02
Parasitic Jager
13 Individuals – 2017 (2), 2018, 2019 (2), 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023 (2)
Pomarine Jaeger
Over 100 Individuals – 2016, 2017 (3), 2018, 2019 (3), 2020 (2), 2021 (14), 2022 (7), 2023 (3)
Manx Shearwater
+30 Individuals – 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (3), 2022 (6) & 2023 (3)
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
Arctic Tern
Black Tern
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Black-headed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Royal Tern
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Little Gull
Black-Legged Kittiwake
NorthernFulmar
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous Gull
Iceland Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
California Gull
Heermann’s Gull
Common Gull
Mew Gull
Northern Gannet
Brown Booby
Masked Booby
Brown Pelican
American White Pelican
Dovekie
Thick-billed Murre
Common Murre
Razorbill
Atlantic Puffin
Black Guillemot
Scripps’s Murrelet
Red-Throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt’s Cormorant
Neotropic Cormorant
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
White-winged Scoter
Surf Scoter
Black Scoter
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Harlequin Duck
Common Eider
King Eider
Common Merganser
Red-Breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Bufflehead
American Oystercatcher
