[CINC] REMINDER: May 16, 2009: Condor Express Seabird Trip

[Shauna Bingham]

*What: **Condor Express Pelagic Seabird Trip for the Channel Islands 
Naturalist Corps* * **
When:** **Saturday, May, 16, 2009; load 7:30 am, depart 8:00 am, return 
4:30 pm*
*Cost:** Approximately $80.00 based on participation -- * ***Condor 
Express will still take walk ups on Saturday morning, so if you have not 
reserved a spot it is not too late***
*
*Who: *We are fortunate to have the following experts join us for our 
trip! This is a great ratio of experts.

Todd McGrath* has more than 300 days at sea studying pelagic avifauna, 
with more than 120 days at sea on each coast of the United States as 
well as visiting Australia, South Africa and Antarctica to view 
seabirds.  He has served on the Board of Directors of Audubon California 
and is currently the senior leader of all Los Angeles Audubon, Buena 
Vista Audubon and San Diego Bird Festival pelagic trips.  A resident of 
California since 1997, Todd lives in Marina del Rey with his wife Pamela 
and their two daughters Katelyn and Sarah.  In 2005, Todd co-authored 
the authoritative paper "/*Pelagic Birding in the Southern California 
Bight*/" and is widely regarded as a leading expert on west and east 
coast seabirds.

*David Pereksta* is a Supervisory Fish and Wildlife Biologist for the US 
Fish and Wildlife Service, where he works to conserve habitat for 
threatened and endangered species and migratory birds.  Throughout his 
career with various Federal and State agencies, he has studied several 
imperiled bird species including snowy plovers, piping plovers, least 
terns, ospreys, northern goshawks, brown pelicans, and spotted owls.  
Recently, David has assisted Cornell University in their searches for 
the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas during the 2006, 2007, and 2008 
field seasons.  An avid birder for nearly 30 years, he has birded 
throughout North America and the American tropics, including leading 
trips to Belize, Costa Rica, and Peru.  David has been an active 
participant in southern California pelagic trips since 1994 and has been 
a regular leader for Los Angeles Audubon, The Searcher, and The Condor 
Express since 2000.
*
Dave Compton *is a native of Tennessee who lived a previous life in 
publishing before discovering birds in the early 1990s. From that point, 
he birded like mad around his adopted home in Santa Barbara, California, 
while making the gradual transition from professional editor to 
full-time biologist. He has served as Santa Barbara County's subregional 
editor for North American Birds since 2000, coordinated the Santa 
Barbara Audubon Society's Spring Seabird Migration Census in Goleta for 
four years, and served on the California Bird Records Committee in 
2006-2008.

*Wes Fritz* worked on many environmental protection projects by CA Fish 
& Game, BLM and other environmental groups, for federally-protected 
threatened and endangered species. He spent five years researching for 
the San Bernardino and Riverside Counties' Breeding Bird Surveys, and 
also worked on Important Bird Areas of California (IBAC). He has done 
bird surveys with China Lake NWC (CA), Edwards AFB (CA), Ft. Irwin NTC 
(CA) and a few other military installations.And worked with Vandenberg 
Air Force Base (CA) on conservation projects. During the 2006 ABA 
Conference in Ventura, CA, he was Field Trip Coordinator. Wes has led 
many fieldtrips for various Audubon groups, the Nature Conservancy, the 
American Birding Association, Western Field Ornithologists, and a few 
bird festivals. And ehe also co-leeds many deepwater pelagic trips for 
Los Angeles Audubon.
*
Jon Feenstra* is a native of Appalachian New Jersey and a life-long 
outdoors enthusiast. He moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to continue his 
education and holds a PhD in chemical physics from Caltech. However, 
since birds are his true passion, he works as a freelance environmental 
consultant and professional birding guide so he can spend every day 
outside.  His is a co-author, along with Todd McGrath, of the 
foundational articles in Los Angeles Audubon's journal outlining the 
current knowledge of seabird distribution in the Southern California 
Bight. If there's a boat out looking for birds off Southern California,  
Jon is on it.

_*Pelagic seabirds are amazing*_ -- you will search for them offshore 
near San Miguel Island  and you never know what you will see. See a 
partial list below, or follow this link for a complete list of Pelagic 
Seabirds of Southern CA: http://www.socalbirding.com/whatwillwesee.html

*Black-footed Albatross  *
/Phoebastria nigripes/ [May-July are the best months from Monterey, 
deepwater from Ventura and Santa Barbara]
*Murphy's Petrel  *
/Pterodroma ultima/ [Deepwater in spring (rare)]
*Cook's Petrel *
* */Pterodroma cookii/ [Deepwater during spring and summer, closer to 
its territorial waters from Ventura and Santa Barbara (rare)]/ /
*Pink-footed Shearwater  *
/Puffinus creatopus/ [April - November from Ventura & Santa Barbara, 
August - November from Monterey]
*Flesh-footed Shearwater  *
/Puffinus carneipes/ [Uncommon from Monterey, August - November; rare 
from Ventura & Santa Barbara]
*Buller's Shearwater  *
/Puffinus bulleri/ [August - October from Monterey, September - October 
from Ventura & Santa Barbara]
*Short-tailed Shearwater  *
/Puffinus tenuirostris/ *[Winter]*
*Black-vented Shearwater  *
/Puffinus opisthomelas / [Late fall & winter, frequently seen from shore]
*Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel  *
/Oceanodroma furcata/ [Deepwater from Monterey in winter, accidental 
from Ventura & Santa Barbara]
*Ashy Storm-Petrel  *
/Oceanodroma homochroa/ [April - November from Ventura & Santa Barbara, 
August - November from Monterey]
*Black Storm-Petrel   *
/Oceanodroma melania / [April - November from Ventura & Santa Barbara, 
August - October from Monterey]
*Least Storm-Petrel  *
/Oceanodroma microsoma/
[August - October from Ventura & Santa Barbara, September [during warmer 
water years] from Monterey]
*Red-billed Tropicbird *
/Phaethon aethereus / [July - September from Ventura & Santa Barbara, 
less likely seen from Monterey]
*Marbled Murrelet *
/Brachyramphus marmoratus/ [Year round but scarce in fall & winter from 
Monterey, accidental from Ventura & Santa Barbara]
*Xantus's Murrelet  *
/Synthliboramphus hypoleucus / [February - August from Ventura & Santa 
Barbara, late summer & fall from Monterey]
*Craveri's Murrelet  *
/Synthliboramphus craveri/ [Late summer & fall from Ventura & Santa 
Barbara, fall (during warmer water years) from Monterey]
*Ancient Murrelet  *
/Synthliboramphus antiquus/ [Winter (rare from Ventura & Santa Barbara)]
*Cassin's Auklet *
/Ptychoramphus aleuticus/ [Fall - spring from Ventura & Santa Barbara, 
fall from Monterey]
*Rhinoceros Auklet  *
/Cerorhinca monocerata/ [Fall & winter]
*Tufted Puffin  *
/Fratercula cirrhata/ [Any season, but scarce from Monterey, accidental 
and well offshore from Ventura & Santa Barbara]

Here is *SoCalBirding.Com's Trip Preparation List*, be sure to pack your 
binoculars: http://www.socalbirding.com/trippreparation.html

-- 
Shauna Bingham 
Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator
NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
3600 S. Harbor Blvd. #111
Oxnard, CA 93035
Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov
(805) 382-6149 ext. 102
Fax (805) 382-9791
http://channelislands.noaa.gov

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