Atlantic Seabird Photo Journal: Off New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland Coasts to Canyons 1967-2006

By Alan Brady

This collection of notes and photographs of offshore trips and sightings along the
coast, along with some photos outside the study area were made from the late sixties
onward. My sea-birding companion Armas Hill and I have made the effort to collectively
collate the many thousands of sightings. All the photographs made out of our study area
are so marked. I thank Ken Kitson for assisting in the production of the distribution and
population chart, as well as Elizabeth Brady for drawing the map of the covered area,
and Sally Brady for her drawing of the European Storm-Petrel.
Without Captain John Larson and his Miss Barnegat Light and the great captains
and crews aboard, as well as all the Ebles with their Doris Mae, this would have been
an impossible task. The Atlantis and the White Star as well as Captain Garrisons
boat in 1967 that found us an albatross (even though the captain was too embarrassed to
admit to his fellow captains that he was taking out a group of bird watchers!) Things
have changed.
Kate Brethwaite, John Danzenbaker and Jim Merrit were almost always aboard
when we began the pelagic trips. Laurie Larson, Doug Gill, Irvin Black, William Boyle,
Joseph Burgiel, Pete Dunne, Richard Kane, Alan Keith and Harry Wallum were among
the many on early trips. Several thousands more have been on the approximately three
hundred fi fty canyon trips it took to complete the information and photos covering this
study. All these birders are a great part of this book.
Other mentors who showed us the way and corrected my mistakes with grace were
Robert Ake, James Akers, Paul duMont, Peter Harrison, Paul Lehman, Brian Patteson,
Jon Pearson, Betty Phinny, Richard Roulete, Will Russel and David Wingate.
For the scanning and processing of photos and text and the time devoted to the
project, I thank Elaine and Chuck Crunkleton, excellent birders and good friends.
Elaines son, Tim Ryan, also deserves much thanks for providing his computer expertise
for the layout process. A special thanks to Kathy Horn, whos impecable eye smoothed
out many, many problems.
Photographs by the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 17, 2009
• ISBN: 9781450081597

Alan Brady

Both Alan Brady and Purple Finch seem to be enjoying the cruise on the Miss Barnegat Light eighty miles from the beach, November, some years ago. Photo by Kate Brethwaite, a great seabirder and trip companion.

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Contents

Preface

Forward

Introduction

North Atlantic in Winter

Red-throated Loon

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Yellow-nosed Albatross

Black-browed Albatross

Northern Fulmar

Trindade Petrel

Bermuda Petrel

Black-capped Petrel

Fea’s Petrel

Cory’s Shearwater

Cape Verde Shearwater

Greater Shearwater

Buller’s Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Manx Shearwater

Audubon’s Shearwater

Wilson’s Storm-Petrel

White-faced Storm-Petrel

European Storm-Petrel

Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel

White-tailed Tropicbird

Red-billed Tropicbird

Masked Booby

Brown Booby

Northern Gannet

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Magnificent Frigatebird

Red-necked Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Red Phalarope (cont.)

Great Skua

South Polar Skua

Skua

Skua Sampler

Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Laughing Gull

Franklin’s Gull

Little Gull

Black-headed Gull

Bonaparte’s Gull

Black-tailed Gull

Mew Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Thayer’s Gull

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Glaucous Gull

Glaucous x Herring Hybrid

Great Black-backed Gull

Kelp Gull

Sabine’s Gull

Black-legged Kittiwake

Ross’s Gull

Ivory Gull

Caspian Tern

Royal Tern

Sandwich Tern

Roseate Tern

Common Tern

Arctic Tern

Forster’s Tern

Least Tern

Bridled Tern

Sooty Tern

White-winged Tern

Whiskered Tern

Black Tern

Brown Noddy

Dovekie

Common Murre

Thick-billed Murre

Razorbill

Black Guillemot

Long-billed Murrelet

Atlantic Puffin

Log of a March Pelagic Trip to Hudson

Canyon From New Jersey Aboard the

Doris Mae 4

Appendix

For Lizzi B.

My all-time loving anchor

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Preface

This collection of notes and photographs of offshore trips and sightings along the coast, along with some photos outside the study area were made from the late sixties onward. My sea-birding companion Armas Hill and I have made the effort to collectively collate the many thousands of sightings. All the photographs made out of our study area are so marked. I thank Ken Kitson for assisting in the production of the distribution and population chart, as well as Elizabeth Brady for drawing the map of the covered area, and Sally Brady for her drawing of the European Storm-Petrel.

Without Captain John Larson and his Miss Barnegat Light’ and the great captains and crews aboard, as well as all the Ebles with their Doris Mae, this would have been an impossible task. The Atlantis and the White Star as well as Captain Garrison’s boat in 1967 that found us an albatross (even though the captain was too embarrassed to admit to his fellow captains that he was taking out a group of bird watchers"!) Things have changed.

Kate Brethwaite, John Danzenbaker and Jim Merrit were almost always aboard when we began the pelagic trips. Laurie Larson, Doug Gill, Irvin Black, William Boyle, Joseph Burgiel, Pete Dunne, Richard Kane, Alan Keith and Harry Wallum were among the many on early trips. Several thousands more have been on the approximately three hundred fifty canyon trips it took to complete the information and photos covering this study. All these birders are a great part of this book.

Other mentors who showed us the way and corrected my mistakes with grace were Robert Ake, James Akers, Paul duMont, Peter Harrison, Paul Lehman, Brian Patteson, Jon Pearson, Betty Phinny, Richard Roulete, Will Russel and David Wingate.

For the scanning and processing of photos and text and the time devoted to the project, I thank Elaine and Chuck Crunkleton, excellent birders and good friends. Elaine’s son, Tim Ryan, also deserves much thanks for providing his computer expertise for the layout process. A special thanks to Kathy Horn, who’s impecable eye smoothed out many, many problems.

Photographs by the author.

Forward

The Continental Shelf is approximately eighty miles from the coast and was the limit of the North American continent thousands of years ago during our last ice age. Today it is the more productive bird and mammal location in our study area, which is from the