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1 BIRD AND MAMMAL LIST - USHUAIA TO BOUVET Birds, seals and cetaceans sighted M a r c h A p r i l BIRDS: 43 species THE FUNKY SWIMMING/WALKING/SLIDING ONES Gentoo Penguin Chinstrap Penguin Adélie Penguin Macaroni Penguin Magellanic Penguin Unidentified Penguin (swimming) THE CURIOUS AND THE ELUSIVE FLYING ONES Wandering Albatross (Austral form - exulans ) Northern Royal Albatross Southern Royal Albatross Black-browed Albatross Grey-headed Albatross Sooty Albatross Light-mantled Albatross Northern Giant Petrel Southern Giant Petrel Cape Petrel Snow Petrel Southern Fulmar Blue Petrel Thin-billed Prion (slender-billed) Antarctic Prion Fairy Prion White-chinned Petrel Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater Soft-plumaged Petrel White-headed Petrel Kerguelen Petrel Black-bellied Storm-petrel Wilson's Storm-petrel Common Diving-petrel South Georgian Diving-petrel King/Imperial Cormorant (Blue-eyed Shag) Rock Cormorant South Georgian Cormorant Snowy Sheathbill Chilean Skua Subantarctic (brown) Skua South Polar Skua Skua (hybrid or not identified) Kelp Gull Antarctic Tern Arctic Tern? South American Tern Dolphin Gull MAMMALS: 12 species THE FURRY ONES WITH WHISKERS Antarctic Fur Seal Southern Elephant Seal Leopard Seal THE BIG AND GENERALLY FLOATING ONES Minke Whale Sei Whale Fin Whale Blue Whale Humpback Whale Southern Right Whale Pigmy Right Whale Orca Unidentified Whale Southern Bottlenose Whale Bouvet I. Bouvet I. South Scotia Sea en route to Bouvet I. (IV) South Scotia Sea en route to Bouvet I. (III) South Scotia Sea en route to Bouvet I. (II) South Scotia Sea en route to Bouvet I. (I) Thule Island - Base Corbeta Uruguay ruins (South Sandwichs) South Scotia Sea South Scotia Sea Laurie I. Base Orcadas (S. Orkneys) Clarence I. - en route to S. Orkneys King George (S. Shetlands) Bellingshausen & Artigas Stations Drake South of the Convergence Drake North of the Convergence Ushuaia - Beagle Channel

2 BIRD AND MAMMAL LIST - BOUVET TO TRISTAN DA CUNHA Birds, seals and cetaceans sighted A p r i l BIRDS: 38 Species THE FUNKY SWIMMING/WALKING/SLIDING ONES Northern Rockhopper Penguin THE CURIOUS AND THE ELUSIVE FLYING ONES Wandering Albatross (Austral-Snowy form - exulans) Wandering Albatross (Atlantic-"Tristan" form - dabbenena) Black-browed Albatross Grey-headed Albatross Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Sooty Albatross Light-mantled Albatross Northern Giant Petrel Southern Giant Petrel Broad-billed Prion Thin-billed Prion (slender-billed) Antarctic Prion Blue Petrel White-chinned Petrel Spectacled Petrel Grey Petrel Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater (Cape Verde form boydi ) Little Shearwater (S Atlantic form elegans ) Kerguelen Petrel Soft-plumaged Petrel Great-winged Petrel Atlantic Petrel White-headed Petrel Common Diving-petrel Grey-backed Storm-petrel Black-bellied Storm-petrel White-bellied Storm-petrel Wilson's Storm-petrel Subantarctic Skua (Tristan form hamiltoni )? South-polar Skua Kelp Gull Antarctic Tern (Tristan form tristanensis ) Brown Noddy THE LANDBIRDS, VAGRANTS AND OTHER LAZY ONES Tristan Thrush Nightingale Bunting MAMMALS: 4 Species THE BIG AND GENERALLY FLOATING ONES Cuvier's Beaked Whale Long-finned Pilot Whale Unidentified Cetacean THE FURRY ONES WITH WHISKERS Subantarctic Fur Seal En Route to St. Helena II En Route to St. Helena I Nightingale I.- Middle I.- Stoltenhoff I- Inaccessible I. - Tristan da cunha Gough Island - En route to Tristan da Cunha En Route to Gough IV En Route to Gough III En Route to Gough II En route to Gough I

3 BIRD AND MAMMAL LIST - St. Helena, Ascension & Cape Verde Birds, seals and cetaceans sighted A p r i l BIRDS: (16 species. List closed 27/4 pm) THE BIZARRE-TAILED AND ACROBATIC ONES Bulwer's Petrel Cory's Shearwater? Wilson's Storm-petrel? Leach's Storm-petrel Madeiran Storm-petrel Brown Booby Masked Booby Sooty Tern Brown Noddy Black Noddy White Tern Arctic Tern?? Red-billed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Ascension Frigatebird Long-tailed Jaeger THE INDIGENOUS AND THE IMPORTED ONES Feral Pigeon* Peaceful Dove* Indian Myna* Madagascar Fody* Java Sparrow* House Sparrow* Common Waxbill* Yellow Canary* MAMMALS: THE ONES THAT PEOPLE BROUGHT Donkey* Rat* Rabbit (Ascension cute bunny)* Sheep* THE BIG AND GENERALLY FLOATING ONES Common Bottlenose Dolphin? Rough Toothed Dolphin Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Atlantic Spotted Dolphin? Unidentified Beaked Whale OTHER VERTEBRATES: Green Turtle Unidentified Shark Unidentified Hammerhead Shark Superfast Flying-fish Exocetidae *Introduced En Route to St. Helena III En Route to St. Helena IV En Route to St. Helena V Jamestown & St. Helena tour En Route to Ascension I En Route to Ascension II Ascension I. En Route to Cape Verde I En Route to Cape Verde II En Route to Cape Verde III En Route to Cape Verde IV En Route to Cape Verde V Praia - Cape Verde

4 Birds, AVES count Common English Name (non standard) Scientific name (includes subspp and taxonomic variants) 1 Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua ellsworthi 2 Chinstrap Penguin Pygoscelis antarctica 3 Adélie Penguin Pygoscelis adeliae 4 Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus 5 Northern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes (chrysocome) moseleyi 6 Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus 7 Austral "snowy" Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans (= chionoptera) 8 Atlantic "Tristan/Gough" Wandering Albatross (gony) Diomedea [exulans] dabbenena 9 Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea [epomophora] sanfordi 10 Southern Royal Albatross Diomedea [e.] epomophora 11 Black browed Albatross Thalassarche m. melanophris 12 Atlantic Yellow nosed Albatross Thalassarche c. chlororhynchos 13 Grey headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma 14 Sooty Albatross (peeoo) Phoebetria fusca 15 Light mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata 16 Subantarctic "Northern" Giant Petrel Macronectes halli 17 Common "Southern" Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus 18 Cape "pintado" Petrel Daption capense capense 19 Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea 20 Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides 21 Blue Petrel Halobaena caerulea 22 Thin billed Prion (slender billed) Pachyptila belcheri 23 Broad billed Prion (whalebird) Pachyptila vittata 24 Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata banksi 25 Fairy Prion Pachyptila turtur subantarctica 26 White chinned Petrel (shoemaker) Procellaria aequinoctialis 27 Spectacled Petrel (ringeye) Procellaria conspicillata 28 Grey Petrel (pediunker) Procellaria cinerea 29 Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea borealis 30 Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii 31 Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus [iherminieri] boydi 32 Atlantic Little Shearwater Puffinus [assimilis] elegans 33 Sooty Shearwater Ardenna (Puffinus) grisea 34 Great Shearwater Ardenna (Puffinus) gravis 35 Soft plumaged Petrel Pterodroma m. mollis 36 White headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii 37 Kerguelen Petrel Lugensa (Aphrodroma) brevirostris 38 Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta 39 Great winged Petrel Pterodroma m. macroptera 40 Black bellied Storm petrel Fregetta tropica 41 White bellied Storm petrel Fregetta grallaria leucogaster 42 Grey backed Storm Petrel Garrodia nereis 43 Wilson's Storm petrel (Mother Cary's chicken, Jesusbird) Oceanites o. oceanicus + O. o. exasperatus 44 Band rumped (Madeiran) Storm petrel Oceanodroma castro 45 Leach's Storm petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa 46 Common Diving petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix exsul + P. u. dacunhae 47 South Georgian Diving petrel Pelecanoides georgicus 48 King/Imperial Cormorant (Blue eyed Shag) Phalacrocorax (Leucocarbo, Notocarbo) atriceps 49 Rock Cormorant Phalacrocorax magellanicus 50 South Georgian Cormorant Phalacrocorax (Leucocarbo, Notocarbo) georgianus 51 Brown Booby Sula leucogaster 52 Masked Booby Sula dactylatra 53 Ascension Frigatebird Fregata aquila 54 Snowy Sheathbill (Poo Burglar) Chionis alba 55 Chilean Skua Catharacta (Stercorarius) chilensis 56 Subantarctic (brown + "Tristan") Skua Catharacta (Stercorarius) antarctica [including lonnbergi and hamiltoni ] 57 South Polar Skua Catharacta (Stercorarius) maccormicki 58 Long tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus 59 Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus 60 Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata gaini + S. v. tristanensis 61 Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea 62 South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea 63 Sooty Tern (wideawake) Sterna fuscata 64 White (Fairy) Tern Gygis alba 65 Brown (common) Noddy Anous stolidus 66 Black Noddy Anous minutus 67 Dolphin Gull Larus (Leucophaeus) scoresbii 68 Red billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus 69 White tailed (yellow billed) Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus 70 Tristan Thrush (starchy) Nesocichla eremita 71 Nightingale Bunting Nesospiza questi 72 Rock Pigeon Columba livia 73 Peaceful dove Geopelia striata 74 Common Myna Acridotheres tristis 75 Madagascar Fody Foudia madagascariensis 76 House Sparrow Passer domesticus 77 Java Sparrow Padda oryzivora 78 Common Waxbill Estrilda astrid 79 Yellow Canary Serinus flaviventris

5 count Common English Name (non standard) Scientific name (includes subspp and taxonomic variants) 1 Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella 2 Subantarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus tropicalis 3 Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina 4 Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx 5 Antarctic Minke Whale Balaenoptera bonaerensis 6 Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis 7 Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus 8 Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus 9 Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae 10 Pigmy Right Whale Caperea marginata 11 Southern Right Whale Eubalaena australis 12 Long finned Pilot Whale Globicephala melas 13 Orca (Killer Whale) Orcinus orca 14 Southern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon planifrons 15 Cuvier's Beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris 16 Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus 17 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Stenella attenuata 18 Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Stenella frontalis 19 Rough toothed Dolphin Steno bredanensis Other Vertebrates + Introduced* Scientific name (includes subspp and taxonomic variants) Rabbit (Ascension Bunny)* Donkey* Sheep* Rat* Green Turtle Flying Fish Unidentified Shark Unidentified Hammerhead Shark Mammals, MAMMALIA Oryctolagus cuniculus Equus [africanus] asinus Ovis [orientalis] aries Rattus sp. Chelonia mydas Family Exocetidae

6 CETACEAN SIGHTINGS: SHIP LOCATION SPECIES OF EST. CONDITIONS DATE TIME LATITUDE LONGITUDE (W) WHALE # SEA / WIND ICE(tenths) COMMENTS 28/3/ FIN KT 0 a to b 28/3/ SOUTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE 1 30KT 0 sleeping 28/3/ ORCA 7 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE 2 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ HUMPBACK 1 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ SOUTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE 1 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ ORCA 3 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ FIN 1 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ ?? 4 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ FIN 19 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ FIN 3 19KT 0 a to b 28/3/ SOUTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE 1 19KT 0 a to b 29/3/ HUMPBACK 1 38KT 0 diving 29/3/ HUMPBACK 1 38KT 0 slow swimming 30/3/ HUMPBACK 1 40KT 0 flipper splashing 30/3/ HUMPBACK 2 40KT 0 flipper splashing 30/3/ HUMPBACK 7 40KT 0 spyhooping - flapping 30/3/ SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE 1 40KT 0 a to b 30/3/ HUMPBACK 2 40KT 0 a to b 30/3/ HUMPBACK 2 40KT 0 a to b 30/3/ SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE 2 37KT 0 a to b 31/3/ HUMPBACK 12 30KT 0 spyhooping - flapping - diving 31/3/ HUMPBACK 8 27KT 0 a to b 31/3/ HUMPBACK 5 27KT 0 a to b 31/3/ HUMPBACK 7 27KT 0 a to b 31/3/ SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE 1 27KT 0 logging 31/3/ HUMPBACK 30 27KT 0 feeding 31/3/ HUMPBACK 10 27KT 0 feeding 31/3/ HUMPBACK 7 25KT 0 a to b + breach 31/3/ HUMPBACK 5 20KT 0 a to b + breach 31/3/ HUMPBACK 13 20KT 0 breach + wing flapping 31/3/ HUMPBACK 6 15KT 0 breach + wing flapping 31/3/ SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE 2 15KT 0 tail sailing 1/4/ SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE logging - tail sailing 1/4/ HUMPBACK a to b 1/4/ HUMPBACK a to b + flipper splashing 1/4/ FIN /4/ HUMPBACK surface feeding 2/4/ HUMPBACK /4/ HUMPBACK /4/ HUMPBACK a to b 2/4/ HUMPBACK a to b 2/4/ FIN /4/ HUMPBACK feeding 2/4/ HUMPBACK a to b 2/4/ BLUE a to b 2/4/ HUMPBACK a to b 2/4/ SEI a to b 3/4/ SEI /4/ FIN calf 3/4/ FIN /4/ FIN a to b 3/4/ FIN w/ fulmars Bouvet 6/4/ E HUMPBACK /4/ E SEI logging 7/4/ E SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE a to b 7/4/ E FIN + SEI a to b 7/4/ E FIN a to b 7/4/ E FIN /4/15 16: N 2025 Rough-toothed Dolphin + others aerial, splashing, very active mix group 26/4/15 16: N 2025 Unidentified beaked whale breaching + dolphins around Whale count 244

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