Two Trips: Sept.22-23 and Oct.22


Our last organized pelagic trip of the 2018 year (Oct.7-8, 2018) got its target: 2 Great Skuas in mid-Gulf Of Maine

Relative sizes of gulls and some other seabirds

Length in CM...

94-97    NORTHERN GANNET

73-76    Great Black-backed Gull
68-72    Glaucous Gull

61-64    Herring Gull
56-60    Iceland Gull

53-57    Lesser Black-backed Gull
53         CASPIAN TERN
53         SOUTH POLAR SKUA

48-53    POMARINE JAEGER

48         GREAT SHEARWATER
47-49    NORTHERN FULMAR
44-49    PARASITIC JAEGER
43-45    Ring-billed Gull
43         Ivory Gull
41-43    Black-legged Kittiwake
41-42    Laughing Gull
40-41    Black-headed Gull

37-38    Franklin's Gull
36         COMMON TERN
34-36    Sabine's Gull
33-34    Bonaparte's Gull
34         MANX SHEARWATER

30        AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER

28         Little Gull
25-30    LITTLE & BAROLO SHEARWATERs
23         LEAST TERN

20        RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
18-19   WILSON'S STORM-PETREL

15        EUROPEAN STORM-PETREL