[va-bird] Re: Storm-petrels in Chesapeake Bay

I've been going out on a number of Brian Patteson's pelagics off the
Outer Banks the past couple of years (in fact, leave tomorrow to go down
for a couple more trips).  I've therefore been able to become familiar
with BRSP off North Carolina.  I've also been out on a moderate number
of Brian's Virginia Beach trips to Norfolk Canyon through the years (and
also spent some time as a Foreign Fisheries Observer off Virginia about
25 years ago), yet have never seen a BRSP off Virginia.  Brian Patteson
or Ned Brinkley would be the  two people who'd have the best sense of
the ongoing offshore status of BRSP off Virginia.  In any case, the
species remains on the Virginia review list simply because not enough
records have been submitted and accepted to get it off that list.
So...if Tyler makes and acceptably documents another handful of records,
maybe it will become just another species on Virginia's bird list!

                                                            John Bazuin

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The Band-rumped Storm-petrel, in Virginia waters, was out on the coastal
shelf. Still, BRSP is a review species anywhere in Virginia. I did see a
bird that I believe to be a BRSP just north of VA in Maryland waters SE
of Pt. Lookout. I'm actually surprised the BRSP is a review species for
VA in waters of 150 feet or more. I would wager that this bird occurs
more than annually in deep waters near the shelf break but that there
just aren't enough boat trips that venture into that area at the right
time of year. If you look at an old Peterson's Eastern you'll find that
BRSP is relegated to the back of the book as an extreme vagrant but with
the dramatic increase in pelagics, particularly from the OBX, that this
bird is much more common than previously thought.

This particular bird, as seems to be typical of the species, was with a
flock of about 10 Wilson's Storm-petrels and flirted with the outer
fringe of the feeding flock. The different flight style, wing length and
shape really stand out from the stubby winged WISPs!

Anyway, just my 2 cents worth!

Tyler Bell
belljt@xxxxxx
California, MD

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All,

      In years past I've also seen Wilson's Storm-petrels in Chesapeake
Bay...both from he Virginia Western Shore and from the Smith Island
ferry that is based near Smith Point.  The Western Shore sightings
provoked me into publishing a comprehensive paper on WISP sightings in
Chesapeake Bay, that was published in The Raven (the VSO's technical
serial publication) in about 1990 or 1991.  That paper will provide
insight into Tyler Bell's sightings.  I can't remember if there were any
Chesapeake Bay sightings of Band-rumped Storm-petrel during any of
Virginia's recent hurricane encounters but, in any case, a Band-rumped
Storm-petrel in the Bay unaided by a tropical system is probably a
first.

                                                            John B azuin

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From Tyler Bell, from an MDOsprey post (with his permission) (WISP =
Wilson's Storm-petrel):


"I have a bunch of sightings over many days though most of our stations
were in NC waters. I'll summarize with approximate locations:

7/8 East of James River on the Chesapeake
1 WISP

7/9 East of lower Delmarva, 30 meters, 24.8C surface temp
4 WISP
1 Greater Shearwater
2 Cory's Shearwaters
1 Audubon's Shearwater

7/9 near NOAA 44014 buoy, ~50 meters, 25.0C
10 WISP
1 BRSP (Band-rumped Storm-petrel) (review species in VA, I'll submit
documentation)

7/13 Chesapeake SE of Smith Pt., 24.0C
1 WISP

Tyler Bell"


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