10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Fall is the transition season, and for a while I used to be the transition guy, linking up the crazy summer seabird season on the Farallon Islands with the slightly more laid back fall landbird and shark season there. Under the surface we could sea Oceanic Sunfish and Blue Sharks. A Pigeon Guillemot late in the season.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2013
It was made a National Park in the 1980s and is a major breeding and nesting area for over 30,000 seabirds. The surrounding waters are also home to Whale Sharks year-round and on my recent visit I was very fortunate to hop overboard after coming across not one, but two, of these gentle giants. If you like boobies (no giggles please!),
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2021
Earlier in the day, as we ventured out towards the deep waters off of Malpais, Costa Rica at 6 in the morning, another Galapagos Shearwater was the first real pelagic species we encountered. Unexpected, sudden moments of excitement came in the form of a few leaping Thresher Sharks (!), Were there going to be any birds?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2014
Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and breeding, often in large colonies, on coastlines and islands. They’re also more vulnerable to attack from large cold-blooded predators like sharks.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2021
On the breeding grounds of the north, a small bird flies into the night, takes a bearing for the south, gains altitude and flies onward. In Costa Rica, they can take the form of everything from toucans (think crows with giant shark inspired beaks) to herons and monkeys. Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2011
The most common species we see are the Stoke’s Sea Snake Astrotia stokesii , Dubois’ Sea Snake Aipysurus duboisii and the Olive Sea Snake Aipysurus laevis. Carpet Shark washed up Carpet shark being returned to the sea I hope you have enjoyed this little insight into our varied wildlife here in the north of Australia.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. The final large petrel species is another gadfly petrel, albeit a much larger one than the Cook’s Petrel.
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