[Survey Summary]
Location: Hachinohe – Tomakomai Ferry Route
Date: Aug. 21-22, 2021
Vessel: Silver Ferry (Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen Kaisya,LTD.), Regular Ferry route
Purpose: Regular route monitoring and seasonal seabird survey
Key Species: Aleutian Tern
Weather/Sea Conditions:
Bird list
- 6 Black-footed Albatross
- 6 Laysan Albatross
- 7 Providence Petrel
- 1486 Streaked Shearwater
- 11 Sooty Shearwater
- 2 Sooty or Short-tailed Shearwater
- 7 Leach’s Storm Petrel
- X Japanese Cormorant
- X Grey Heron
- 95 Red-necked Phalarope
- 12 Phalarope sp.
- 3 Socolopacidae sp.
- X Black-tailed Gull
- X Slaty-backed Gull
- 1 Aleutian Tern
- 11 Tern sp.
- 1 Pomarine Jaeger
- 2 Parasitic Jaeger
- 1 Long-tailed Jaeger
- 2 Parasitic or Long-tailed Jaeger
- 3 Japanese Murrelet
- 1 Rhinoceros Auklet
- 1 Osprey
Others
- 1 Bryde’s Whale?
- 15 Short-finned Pilot Whale
