Birds seen, MS Fram: Montevideo – Falklands – South Georgia – Antarctic Peninsula – Drake Passage – Ushuaia 29 October to 16 November 2016 Date 29 30 31 departure at sea at sea Montevideo Seabird Species King Penguin Gentoo Penguin Adélie Penguin Chinstrap Penguin Southern Rockhopper Penguin X Macaroni Penguin Magellanic Penguin X King Cormorant (Falkland form of Imperial or Blue- eyed Shag) South Georgia Shag (South Georgia form of Imperial or Blue-eyed Shag) Antarctic Shag (Antarctic form of Imperial or Blue- eyed Shag) Rock Shag Wilson's Storm-petrel X (20) Grey-backed Storm-petrel Black-bellied Storm-petrel Southern Royal Albatross Wandering Albatross X(1) X (2) Light-mantled Albatross Grey-headed Albatross Black-browed Albatross X X giant petrel sp. X X (50) Northern Giant Petrel X (6) Southern Giant Petrel X (1) Southern Giant Petrel (white morph) Southern Fulmar X (3) Antarctic Petrel Cape Petrel X X (20) Snow Petrel Blue Petrel Antarctic Prion prion sp. Soft-plumaged Petrel Atlantic Petrel X (30) White-chinned Petrel X (20) Sooty Shearwater X (3) Great Shearwater X (50+) X (200+) Manx Shearwater X Common Diving-petrel diving-petrel sp. Dolphin Gull Kelp Gull X (200) Antarctic Tern Antarctic Tern (South Georgia subspecies) South American Tern Royal Tern X (1) unidentified tern sp. (Sterna ) X (6) South Polar Skua Brown Skua unidentified skua sp. (Catharacta ) X (1) Snowy Sheathbill (=Pale-faced Sheathbill)
Landbird species (Falklands) Kelp Goose Upland Goose Ruddy-headed Goose Flightless Steamer Duck Crested Duck South Georgia Pintail Black-crowned Night-heron Striated Caracara Turkey Vulture Blackish Oystercatcher Magellanic Oystercatcher Double-banded Plover Correndera Pipit South Georgia Pipit Austral Thrush Blackish Cinclodes Dark-faced Ground-tyrant Long-tailed Meadowlark Sedge Wren (= Grass Wren) Cobb's Wren Black-chinned Siskin White-bridled Finch (=Black-throated Finch) House Sparrow
Landbird species (migrants resting on the boat) Spot-winged Dove 1 1 Wattled Jacana flew past! Tropical Kingbird 1 Bearded Tachuri 1 flycatcher sp. (with streaked breast) 1 Fork-tailed Flycatcher 1 dove sp. (small with white wing bars) 1 White-tipped Dove? 1 Chilean Swallow 1 1 Birds seen, MS Fram: Montevideo – Falklands – South Georgia – Antarctic Peninsula – Drake Passage – Ushuaia 29 October to 16 November 2016 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 at sea Carcass West Point Stanley at sea at sea Fortuna Saunders Shag Rocks Strømness
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