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Choppy seas – a Panamá Pelagic trip

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10 July 2014 By late spring wayward seabirds were showing up far north of their typical distributions, presumably due to el Niño like conditions further south. With reports of Waved Albatross and Inca Tern already in from Costa Rican waters, with the results of the last pelagic from Pedasí in mind [...]

Pelagic birding off southern Oaxaca and the Townsend’s Shearwater

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20 September 2013 Nowhere else on the Pacific Coast of North America is the continental shelf as close to shore as it is off of southern Oaxaca. From Puerto Angel the shelf edge begins to fall off into the Middle American Trench as close as 3-4 miles from shore, and approximately 20 miles off shore you encounter over 12,000 feet of water. The sea [...]