Species Guides

A guide to where to see penguins on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from Algoa Bay's African Penguin colony and the Humboldt Current's endemic Humboldt Penguin to Galapagos Penguin, Magellanic Penguin in Patagonia and the Falklands, and the Snares and Erect-crested Penguins of New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands.

A guide to the best destinations for seeing albatrosses on pelagic trips, covering New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, South Georgia, Ecuador's Waved Albatross, the US West Coast, Hawaii, Canada, and Japan.

A guide to where to see gulls and terns on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from Sabine's Gull migrating past Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Iberia, and the Gulf Stream, to the Galápagos' nocturnal Swallow-tailed Gull and the Humboldt Current's Inca Tern.

A guide to where to see gadfly and true petrels on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from Bermuda's Cahow and Australia's Providence Petrel to the Critically Endangered Mascarene Petrel of the Seychelles.

A guide to where to see puffins, guillemots, murres, murrelets, and auklets on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from Arctic Norway's million-strong cliff colonies to Alaska's Kenai Fjords and Japan's Hokkaido seabird islands.

A guide to where to see Red-necked and Grey (Red) Phalaropes on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from the North Sea and North Minch autumn passage to the phalarope superabundance of Oman's Khareef monsoon upwelling.

A guide to where to see boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from the Galapagos and Isla de la Plata to Hawaii, Bermuda, Cape Verde, and Mauritius.

A guide to where to see jaegers and skuas on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from the four-skua passage off Britain, Ireland, and the North Sea to the Chilean Skua of the Southern Ocean and jaeger diversity on both US coasts.

A guide to where to see shearwaters on pelagic birding trips worldwide, from the Gulf Stream and Gulf of Cádiz to the Humboldt Current and tropical Pacific, with links to the best trips for Cory's, Sooty, Manx, Balearic, and Townsend's Shearwaters.

A guide to where to see storm-petrels pelagic birding, covering key species from Wilson's and Band-rumped to Ashy and European Storm-Petrels, with links to the best trips worldwide.