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 Single trip registrants (people who want to take just one trip with...

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And Summer is HERE! 15 & 16 August 2025 - Kate Sutherland August 23, 2025
After having to cancel our trips at the beginning of the month it was really nice to get out there this past weekend on the 15 and 16th! And while we didn't find anything super rare or unexpected we did have excellent views of our usual suspects like Black-capped Petrels, Sargasso Shearwater, and Band-rumped Storm-Petrel. […]
Summer is on the way! 13 & 14 June 2025 - by Kate Sutherland June 18, 2025
The "Talk"Swell from the southeast and wind from the southwest is what we had for this Friday and Saturday set. Friday winds were light...but there were a lot of birds sitting around out there, especially Black-capped Petrels! One flock even had a Band-rumped Storm-Petrel sitting with them! Though as you can see, these birds tend to […]
Tropicbirds!!! 5, 6, 7 June 2025 by Kate Sutherland June 10, 2025
Luck was with us that we had some easterly wind and swell for this set of trips following our annual Spring Blitz! This was really evident in our luck with species that can be a bit out of range on a westerly like a tropicbird...so imagine our joy to have a White-tailed on Thursday (5 […]
Monday 2 June 2025 June 3, 2025
And such a finale for our Spring Blitz that was plagued by bizarre weather patterns and off timing for our usually dependable seabirds of the spring! We weathered out four days during this set: May 21, 26, 28 and 31st. But today we ended it with the spectacular species that kicked it all off on […]
Sunday 1 June 2025 June 2, 2025
Today was a gorgeous day offshore, though this morning the sea still held a bit of swell from the wind yesterday and last night. While diversity was a bit low, we found really great numbers of Sargasso Shearwaters out there past the shelf break! They were definitely the seabird highlight today with the highest number […]