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Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Species List from pelagic trip to Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Septebmer 29, 2002 compiled by Rich Stallcup

Birds	Abundance
Black-footed Albatross	20
Pink-footed Shearwater	58
Buller's Shearwater	14
Black-vented Shearwater	2
Flesh-footed Shearwater	2
Sooty Sheawater	110
Streaked Shearwater ( 1st for Marin County, and CBNMS and 9th for the Northeast Pacific)	1
Wilson’s Storm petrel	1
Black Storm-petrel	1
Ashy Storm-petrel	15
Merlin (seen 12 miles SSW of Bodega Head)	1
Red Phalarope	120
Red-necked Phalarope	50
Pomarine Jaeger	3
Parasitic Jaeger	2
Long-tailed Jaeger	6
South Polar Skua	9
Sabine’s Gull	1000+
Black-legged Kittiwake	2
Common Tern	3
Arctic Tern	30
Common Murre	80
Pigeon Guillemot	2
Xantus Murrelet	1
Cassin’s Auklet	650
Rhinoceros Auklet	30
Tufted Puffin	3
Marine Mammals
Dall’s Porpoise	10
Pacific White-sided Dolphin	4
Blue Whale	12
Humpback Whale	35
Five pinniped species
Fish
Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola)	3
Blue Shark	1

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* List is compiled of all sightings on the boat, some people miss a lot, nobody sees everything.


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