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This is a Black Browed Albatross which I have seen in all
the Oceans of the S. (Indian, Pacific, Atlantic and S. Polar). These birds
often come in flocks and stay next to the ship for extended lengths of time.
This particular picture was taken in the S. Atlantic enroute to Chile around
the 58th parallel (Leg 179). |
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This is a Kerguelan Petrel taken in 50 knot winds from which
it was taking shelter also going to Chile. (Leg 179) |
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This is a Antarctic Prion taken off Heard Is. in the S. Pacific. These birds are very hard to differentiate unless they come fairly close to the ship and the wind is slow enough so they fly by at a easy rate. High wind and these guys really move and almost become impossible to identify (Leg 183) |
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This is a Black-bellied Storm-petrel from below Capetown. You can barely see the black on the belly at bottom but these birds never made it easy to get that mark in a picture. (Leg177) |
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a Greater Shearwater taken 100 Miles off New York Harbor. These birds slept near the ship everyday and in the morning there were upwards of 200 birds around the ship. (Leg 174a) |
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A Black-footed Albatross taken 240 miles off the Washington/Canadian
Border. These guys are scavengers extraordinaire. They came to BBQ like clock
work to get the scraps. They became very proficient at this retrieval.
(Leg 168) |
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Black-legged Kittiwakes both immature and adults taken off Iceland (Leg 162) |
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A Brown Booby off Puerto Rico (Leg 166) |
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A Buller's Albatross off Heard Is. in the S. Pacific (Leg 183) |
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A Cape Petrel take off Heard Is. (Leg 183) |
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A Chatham Is. Albatross (subspecies) taken off Chatham Is. (Leg 181) |
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A Grey Petrel taken on transit to Chile. Again the winds were pretty stout even though they were not as bad as the next day when I took the Kerguelan Petrel above. (Leg 179) |
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A Northern Fulmar (light phase) taken off Greenland. This species in this area was really common. I saw thousands each day and became very familiar with them. The light phase really reminds me of flying light bulb. (Leg 162) |
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A immature Northern Giant Petrel taken off Heard Is. notice
the pinkish bill tip and that it is a really dark bird. The Southern isn't
this dark and the bill tip is dark but not pinkish (Leg 183) |
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This is a Southern Giant Petrel and is a much lighter bird. THe N. giants don't get this light colored. They only get white around the head not all over like this bird |
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This Royal Albatross isn't a full adult bird but very close. notice the white leading edge to the wing and the complete lack of black in the tail. In this stage the Wandering Albatross would still have black in the tail that would be very visible. This was taken off Chatham Is. (Leg 181) |
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These two birds are Wandering Albatrosses also taken off Chatham Is. area but a little farther north. The dark bird is a 1st yr bird and the other is a full adult. You can still see black on the tail on this bird (Leg 181) |
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This Sabine's Gull was taken off the Texas Coast on a pelagic birding trip out of Port O'Conner. This was quite a good find for the area. |
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This South Georgian Diving Petrel actually had to be transfer to this spot on my ship so that he wouldn't be hurt. He stayed for the evening and left at very early dusk. I actually had a very close look at this little guy (in hand) to make sure that he wasn't injured. (Leg 181) |
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This Sooty Shearwater was 100 miles off New York harbor along with the Greater Shearwaters every morning (Leg 174a) |
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This is a Wilson's Storm Petrel taken off Costa Rica
(Leg 170) |
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This is a Audubon's Shearwater taken off
the Texas Coast |
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mutiple pelagics off NZ east coast (Leg 181) |
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Hutton Shearwater taken as we pulled into
Wellington, NZ (leg 181) |