Murphy's Petrel * The Condor Express * 30 April 2011
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Channel: W. Terry Hunefeld · 2011 · People & Blogs
Full report: http://socaltripreports.com/?p=167 * * The star of the show was the Murphy's Petrel that EVERYONE got to see well from the spring 2011 Condor Express pelagic trip. We also saw more than a dozen Black-footed and one Laysan Albie, Sabine's Gulls, Arctic Terns and much more. This trip has a record for finding rarities. For example: a thousand Sabine's Gulls, a pod of Orca Killer Whales and seven Parakeet Auklets were enjoyed by dozens of birders on 21 Apr 2007 on this spring pelagic trip aboard the Condor Express. The spring 2009 trip enjoyed killer views of a Horned Puffin. The spring 2010 trip was a fantastic day of seabirding headlined with 63 Cook's Petrels. However, the show-stealer was a Murphy's Petrel that came screaming down the starboard side of the Condor Express. 2010 also gave us two Laysan Alabtrosses, a number of Black-footed Albatrosses and a great phalarope show with thousands of Red-necked and many Reds swirling across the seas.
