Sunday, 9 August 2015

[Maine-birds] Tropicbird no, but....

Went out on the Isle au Haut mailboat's Puffin Cruise today, with skilled naturalist Bob Duchesne. Despite recent reports from other observers in the area, we missed the Red-billed Tropicbird. It is surely still around somewhere.

In addition to the usuals, we were successful with a single Greater Shearwater, dozens of Wilson's Storm-Petrels, one (only) Northern Gannet, one Common Murre (seen briefly), and many Atlantic Puffins. Razorbills have apparently already packed their bags and moved on. One skilled observer on the boat saw a large gull with all white wings, but we heard nothing more definitive. We had quick looks at both Red-necked and Red phalaropes (only a handful of the latter).

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