Monterey California birding trip - September, 2017

Common Loon (nonbreeding) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

* Black-footed Albatross - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017 and August, 1995

Buller's Shearwater - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

* Pink-footed Shearwater - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Flesh-footed Shearwater - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Sooty Shearwater - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Pelagic Cormorant - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Snowy Egret - Moss Landing, CA - September, 2017 and Edinburg Scenic Wetlands, TX - April, 2013 and Dauphin Island, AL - April, 2010

White-tailed Kite (adult) - Toro County Park, California - September, 2017

White-tailed Kite (juvenile) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Snowy Plover (nonbreeding western form) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Black Oystercatcher - Pacific Grove, CA - September, 2017 and Bodega Bay, CA - April, 2012

Willet (nonbreeding "Western form") - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Whimbrel (adult) - Pacific Grove, California - September, 2017 and April, 2012

* Long-billed Curlew (adult) - Moss Landing, CA - September, 2017 and Santa Barbara, CA - April, 2011

Long-billed Curlew (juvenile) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Long-billed Curlew (juvenile in flight) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Marbled Godwit - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Marbled Godwit (in flight) - Moss Landing, CA - September, 2017 and Michigan City Harbor, LaPorte County, IN - June, 2008

Wandering Tattler (juvenile) - Pacific Grove, California - September, 2017

Surfbird (nonbreeding adult) - Pacific Grove, California - September, 2017 and April, 2012

Surfbird (juvenile) - Pacific Grove, California - September, 2017

Sanderling (nonbreeding) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Short-billed Dowitcher (juvenile caurinus subspecies) - Pacific Grove, California - September, 2017

Red-necked Phalarope (nonbreeding) - Elkhorn Slough and Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Pomarine Jaeger (nonbreeding adult light morph) - Monterey, California - September, 2017

Pomarine Jaeger (nonbreeding adult dark morph) - Monterey, California - September, 2017

Pomarine Jaeger (intermediate sub-adult) - Monterey, California - September, 2017

Parasitic Jaeger (breeding adult light morph) - Monterey, California - September, 2017 and Nome, Alaska - June, 2016

Parasitic Jaeger (intermediate sub-adult) - Monterey, California - September, 2017

South Polar Skua - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Heermann's Gull (molting adult) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Heermann's Gull (adult nonbreeding) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Heermann's Gull (adult in flight) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Heermann's Gull (1st cycle in flight) - Monterey, California - September, 2017

Mew Gull (molting from juvenile to 1st winter) - Pacific Grove, California - September, 2017

Sabine's Gull (nonbreeding adult) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

California Gull (2nd cycle) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

California Gull (1st cycle) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

California Gull (1st cycle in flight) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Western Gull (2nd cycle) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Western Gull (2nd cycle in flight) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Western Gull (juvenile molting into 1st winter) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Western Gull (1st cycle in flight) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Elegant Tern (nonbreeding) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Elegant Tern (nonbreeding in flight) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Elegant Tern (juvenile) - Moss Landing, California - September, 2017

Common Murre (juvenile) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Rhinoceros Auklet (nonbreeding) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Tufted Puffin (adult nonbreeding) - Monterey Bay, California - September, 2017

Sea Otter - Moss Landing, California

California Sea Lion - Moss Landing, California

California Sea Lion feeding on a Wolf Eel - Moss Landing, California

Harbor Seal - Monterey, California

Humpback Whale - Monterey Bay, California

Fin Whale - Monterey Bay, California

Blue Whale - Monterey Bay, California

Killer Whale - Monterey Bay, California

Risso's Dolphin - Monterey Bay, California

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