10,000 Storm-Petrels San Diego 9 OCT 2010
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Channel: W. Terry Hunefeld · 2010 · People & Blogs
www.SoCalBirding.com Buena Vista Audubon Society pelagic trip to the Thirty Mile Bank re-found the storm-petrel flocks seen there the previous two weekends. Once again we located the swarm just over the "Lister-County-Line" in L.A. county by following Least and Black Storm-Petrels to the mother lode. Saturday's flock was larger, estimated at 10,000 total birds, with Least once again outnumbering Blacks 70/30. Also seen were Sabine's Gull, Common Tern, 19 individuals of three species of jaeger and Xantus's Murrelet.
