UAE Pelagic Summary

Been a while since I posted,  to be honest I have travelled a lot recently, taken a lot of pictures, been working hard and just not had time for the blog.  However I find myself with 5 minutes to put together a small blog on a summary of some recent Pelagics I have been on off the East Coast of the UAE.

31st May 2013 Species Included :

• Flesh-footed Shearwater 4
• Wedge-tailed Shearwater 5
• Persian Shearwater 4000 +   mostly in two large flocks - amazing sight,  one of the largest if not the largest count of this species in UAE waters.
• Wilson's Storm Petrel 1
• Red-necked Phalarope 15
• Brown Noddy 1
• Sooty Tern 1 (Immature)
• Bridled Tern 700
• Little Tern 5
• Common Tern 200+
• White-cheeked Tern 2
• Lesser-crested Tern 2
• Arctic Skua 1

Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes)

Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)

Persian Shearwater (Puffinus persicus)

Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus)

Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)

Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)

7th June 2013 Species Included :

Numbers were down on this trip,  still 1000+ Persian Shearwater,  however other species were lacking.  The highlight of the trip being a Long-tailed Skua

• Persian Shearwater 1000 +
• Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2
• Bridled Tern 180
• Long-tailed Skua 1

Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)

Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)

Persian Shearwater (Puffinus persicus)

Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus)

Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus)

Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus)

14th June 2013 Species Included :

This turned out to be a cracking Pelagic especially if you needed to see Jouanin's Petrel !

Some of the Tuna action was the best I've seen !!

• Wedge-tailed Shearwater 6
• Flesh-footed Shearwater 1
• Jouanin's Petrel 20
• Wilson's Storm-petrel 22
• Common Noddy 1
• Red-necked Phalarope 2

Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)

Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)

Joaunin's Petrel (Bulweria fallax)

Joaunin's Petrel (Bulweria fallax)

Persian Shearwater (Puffinus persicus)

Persian Shearwater (Puffinus persicus)

Wilson's Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)