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Cabuya Pelagic

by Chris Fischer

On March 8th, I joined Wildredo Villalobos, Robert Dean, Andrew Vallely, and Jesse Lopez Herra for an exciting day of pelagic birding in the Pacific Ocean. Departing from Cabuya at the southern tip of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Penninsula, we went approximately 50km offshore, spending the majority of the day surrounded by hundreds of Spinner Dolphins.

In addition to common species such as Laughing Gull, Royal Tern, and Black Tern, we saw Brown Noddy and all three species of jaegers: Pomarine Jaeger (including several dark morph individuals), Parasitic Jaeger, and Long-tailed Jaeger!

We saw hundreds of Pink-footed Shearwater and Wedge-tailed Shearwater (including several dark morph individuals) but only several of the usually much more common Galapagos Shearwater. There were also several Black Storm-Petrel.

In addition to multitudes of Brown Booby, we also saw Red-footed Booby, Masked Booby, and Nazca Booby.

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Pomarine Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Pomerine Jaeger (dark morph)
Pomerine Jaeger (dark morph)
Long-tailed Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull
Nazca Booby
Nazca Booby
Red-footed Booby
Red-footed Booby
Raft of shearwaters
Raft of shearwaters
Pink-footed Shearwater
Pink-footed Shearwater
Pink-footed Shearwater
Pink-footed Shearwater
Cayuba Pelagic, March 8, 2019: (right to left) Wildredo Villalobos, Robert Dean, Chris Fischer, Jesse Lopez Herra, Andrew Vallely
(right to left): Wildredo Villalobos, Robert Dean, Chris Fischer, Jesse Lopez Herra, and Andrew Vallely

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