Ogasawara Islands Ferry Trip 14-19 September

[Hiroyuki TANOI]

Dear seabirders,

We boarded ferry of Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands last week.

We could observe a Bryan's Shearwaer off Muko-jima, Bonin Islands 18 Sep. I posted the video taken by my wife at the following URL (probably world's first Bryan's Shearwater's video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW0VySzCMWA

We also observed a Stejneger's Petrel and a White-necked Petrel.

The results of this time are as follows.

14-15 and 18-19 September 2018. Tokyo-Chichi-jima, Bonin islands.

11:00 Tokyo (14 Sep) – 11:00 Chichi-jima (15 Sep) – 15:30 Chichi-jima (18 Sep)  – 15:30 (19 Sep) Tokyo.

Providence Petrel -17

White-necked Petrel (Vanuatu-type) -1

Bonin Petrel -13

Stejneger's Petrel -1

Streaked Shearwater -10,000<

Wedge-tailed Shearwater -622

Bannerman's Shearwater -4

Bryan's Shearwater -1

Bulwer's Petrel -342

Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel -2

Leach's Storm Petrel -1

Long-tailed Jaeger -1

Skua sp. (Long-tailed or Arctic) -3

Brown Booby

Red-footed Booby -2

Sooty Tern -5

Common Tern -100+

Brown Noddy -65

Red-necked Phalarope -31

Phalarope sp. -44+

Cetaceans

Pygmy Sperm Whale -1

Bonus

Buff-breasted Sandpiper -1

We luckily observed a bird at Haha-jima, Bonin Islands 15-16 Sep.

*Stejneger's Petrel was seen off Izu-Oshima, Izu Islands. 

It is a species that can be seen at 300 km off the east of Japan, but very rare in coastal areas.

*White-necked Petrel (Vanuatu-type) was seen off north of Muko-jima, Bonin Islands.

Although the black range of under primaries was wide, I heard that Vanuatu and White-necked can not be distinguished reliably from this point.

Cheers.

Hiroyuki Tanoi

oceanod...@nifty.com

'my seabirds homepage'

http://seabirdsjapan.zohosites.com/