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Pelagic Seabird Trips
For an exciting and informative bird watching experience, charters are available. Contact the box office for more information.
Join Maine Audubon’s annual fall pelagic trip out of Bar Harbor to be held Saturday, October 3, 2009. Click here for more details and a printable flyer. You can also visit the Maine Birding Trail website at www.MaineBirdingTrail.com for more information.
Common Seabirds Sighted on Bar Harbor Whale Watch Cruises:
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Razorbill
Atlantic Puffin
Common Murre
Black Guillemot
Arctic Tern
Common Tern
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
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Northern Fulmar
Wilson's Storm Petrel
Northern Gannet
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Common Eider Duck
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Sometimes Seen
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Leaches Storm Petrel
Long-tailed Jaegar
Parasitic Jaegar |
Pomarine Jaegar
Roseate Tern |
Rare Sightings
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Black Tern
Caspain Tern
Black-headed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
South Polar Skua
Thick-billed Murre
Magnificent Frigatebird*
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Harlequin Duck
Foresters Tern
Red-billed Tropicbird*
Sabine's Gull*
Great Skua
Cory's Shearwater
Dovekie |
* one sighting only
Seasonal
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Red-throated Loon
Back-legged Kittewake
Bonapartes Gull
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
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