Saturday, 18 April 2020

Coral Princess 3rd January 2020

We covered around 800km today as we made our way north eventually ending up near Puerto Montt. As we were offshore, we didn't get a chance to see Pincoya Storm-Petrel which are supposed to be found only within fjords of Puerto Montt and the Chacao Channel and not the open sea. A few notable observations of the day were the large numbers of Juan Fernandez Petrel seen throughout the day. We also had our first of the similar but much smaller Stejneger's Petrel. We also had our first Salvin's Albatross of the trip. Although we would see more the following day we never saw significant numbers and they always seemed to keep their distance from the boat. Our time along the Chilean Pacific coastline was limited enough before the cruise came to an end and there was a bit of pressure to clean up on the last of the Pacific specialities for this area before it all finished.

Species Day Count
Buller's Albatross 4
Salvin's Albatross 5
Black-browed Albatross 8
Southern/Northern Royal Albatross 1
Southern Royal Albatross 1
Northern Royal Albatross 2
wandering albatross sp. 1
large albatross sp. 1
Southern Giant Petrel 6
Northern Giant Petrel 2
Northern/Southern Giant Petrel 7
Juan Fernandez Petrel 217
Stejneger's Petrel 7
White-chinned Petrel 7
Procellaria sp. 19
Pink-footed Shearwater 51
Buller's Shearwater 42
Sooty Shearwater 449
Wilson's Storm Petrel 109
Chilean Skua 1

Southern Royal Albatross (white leading edge to wings just visible + more white on scapulars).

Northern Royal Albatross (more black on scapualrs).

Northern Royal Albatross ( dark leading edges to wings).

Northern Royal Albatross

Northern Royal Albatross (bigger black wdge on leading edge of underside of the "hand")

Northern Giant Petrel
Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel

Juan Fenandez Petrel
Pink-footed Shearwater

Pink-footed Shearwater

Pink-footed Shearwater

Pink-footed Shearwater
Buller's Shearwater

Buller's Shearwater
Buller's Shearwater

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