LABIRD ¡ª I¡¯m trying to fill another boat trip for Sat. Oct. 19.
Pelagic trips this late are almost nonexistent so I have no idea what we¡¯ll find out there. An October trip out of Texas had a Manx Shearwater on 10 Oct. 2015, and one was found sick at Port Aransas last year on 26 Oct.. Those birds almost certainly passed through LA waters. So that¡¯s my current ¡°fantasy¡± bird. In second place is Red Phalarope, for which 3 of 4 of Louisiana¡¯s records are from October, and there is a fairly nice scattering of October records all over the eastern USA, including on a few Atlantic pelagic trips.
Here are eBird Trip Lists from the two previous trips, August and September:
If interested, let me know, Van Remsen
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Dr. J. V. Remsen
Emeritus Prof. of Natural Science and Curator of Birds
Museum of Natural Science/Dept. Biological Sciences
LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
najames<at>LSU.edu
