Seabirding – Excellence in Pelagic Birding

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Seabird Diversity

Listing of species seen for each two week period that we run trips from Hatteras,...

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Black-capped Petrel

Learn more about our Gulf Stream signature species and why it is possible this could...

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Gulf Stream Trips

2025 Spring Schedule These trips are currently open for people planning to take more than...

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October and Our Gulf Stream Specialties! Oct 12 & 15th - by Kate Sutherland October 19, 2024
Brian began running trips in October for Dr. Fred Alsop of Eastern Tennessee State University who offered a fall course in Coastal Biology back in 1994. Each year, or sometimes every other year, this course featured a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina where students could immerse themselves in the field and learn […]
September Seabirds - Sept 1st & 28th - by Kate Sutherland October 8, 2024
We only ran two trips this September, our trip the weekend of the 14/15 was cancelled due to weather, but that didn't keep us from finding NINETEEN pelagic species out there on the two days we did make it offshore!! Pretty incredible diversity for us here on the east coast and this rivals some of […]
Summer "Blitz" from Oregon Inlet 20 to 29 August 2024 by Kate Sutherland September 25, 2024
It's always fun to plan some time "up the beach" heading offshore east of Hatteras Island and while the run is a bit longer to get to the deeper water (and this summer the hot, Gulf Stream water!) you never know what you'll find and it's a really fascinating ecosystem with the confluence of two […]
A Little Dose of North Wind - August 16, 17 by Kate Sutherland August 19, 2024
I have been gone since the end of June to work in the Gulf of Mexico so Brian and the team got a few trips out in my absence...though the last trip on the 11th was following a lot of southerly wind. Having a bit of wind from the northeast on Friday, our first trip […]
Summer Sou'wester by Brian Patteson August 4, 2024
After about an eight week long hiatus, we got back to running birding trips aboard the Stormy Petrel on Friday, August 2nd. Less than a week before, a nice cold front had come through and we saw quite a few seabirds before the next heat wave set in and we got a brisk steady wind […]