13th-15th June 2016 pelagic: Great seabirds and cetaceans!

Another successful Wind Birds' pelagic in the Northeast Atlantic! All aimed seabird species observed very close and 6 cetaceans' species!

13th of June 2016 - Northeast wind up to 9 knots but quite choppy sea with north and northeast waves up to 1.5 meters.
3 Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae/deserta - on the way to the chumming position
2 Pterodroma sp. - on the way
1 Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae/deserta
1 Great Skua Stercorarius skua
3 Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus puffinus
1 Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira
Hundreds of Cory's shearwater Calonectris borealis
Several Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii
3 Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis

1 Pterodroma sp. returning to Machico harbour
1 Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira on the return
Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea

Sunfish Mola mola or Masturus lanceolatus

Short-beaked Common dolphin Delphinus delphis

14th of June 2016 - Northerly wind between 4 and 12 knots which later shifted to northwest, waves from the East up to 1 meter.
4 Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae/deserta - on the way to the area where we chum
5 Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus puffinus
1 Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii - on the way
1 European Storm petrel Hydrobates pelagicus
8 Madeiran Storm Petrel Oceanodroma castro - at least 5 at the same time on the chum
2 White-faced Storm Petrel Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca
Dozens of Cory's shearwater Calonectris borealis
Hundreds of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii
4 Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis

Short-beaked Common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic Spotted Dolphins Stenella frontalis
Short-finned pilot whales Globicephala macrorhynchus
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

15th of June 2016 - Wind was blowing between 8 to 12 knots from Northwest and waves were up to 2 meters from the same direction.
2 Pterodroma sp. on the way
1 Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae/deserta
1 Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira
Madeiran Storm Petrel Oceanodroma castro - on the way back
1 Common Tern Sterna hirundo
Many of Cory's shearwater Calonectris borealis
Several of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii
6 Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis

Loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta

Short-beaked Common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Common Bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus