10.27.2019 Kona Coast Pelagic, Hawai'i Island, Hawai'i

[Lance Tanino]

10.27.2019

Kona Coast "Marine Safari" Pelagic (30 participants) #birdfesthawaii #HawaiiBirdGuide -- Preliminary results

Mahalo nui loa for everyone's teamwork and kokua.

Bird List --

Wandering Tattler

Black Noddy

White-tailed Tropicbird

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel

Hawaiian Petrel

Black-winged Petrel*

Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Masked Booby

NAZCA BOOBY*****

Brown Booby

Red-footed Booby (white-morph and brown-morph)

Marine Mammals --

Hawaiian Monk Seal (2; adult and juvenile; critically endangered)

FALSE KILLER WHALES (2; endangered)

US (19.651, -156.122)

8:00 AM

- Played with a 3-ft long Mahimahi taking shelter next to a ocean debris (plastic jug).

- Last sighting involved an adult grabbed the Mahimahi in its mouth into the deep where both disappeared.

Pygmy Killer/Sperm Whale (50+)

Spinner Dolphin

Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

Bottlenose Dolphin

Shark (Mano) --

Oceanic White-tipped Shark 

Tiger Shark 

Other Fish --

Mahimahi (1; Common Dolphinfish/Dorado)

Flying Fish sp. (Malolo)

Insect

Moth sp.