Back from the Gulf

I just spent 6 weeks in the Gulf of Mexico.  I was looking for oiled seabirds.  I got to go on the NOAA  Research Vessel Oregon II – twice.  It was a great boat.

A few bird highlights include: Sooty and Bridled Terns, Brown Noddy, Magnifient Frigatebirds, Red-billed Tropicbirds, Great Shearwater, Audubon’s Shearwater, Cory’s Shearwater, Wilson’s and Band-rumped Storm-petrels. 

Marine mammals included Melon-headed Whales, Atlantic and  Pantropical Spoted Dolphins and Rough-toothed Dolphins.

My favorite sighting were of the sea turtles - 4  species – Loggerhead, Hawksbill, Green, and Leatherback.

  I’m inserting a picutre of a Magnificinet Frigatebird and a Great Shearwater.

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