Pelagic Voyage:
A full day of birdwatching offshore. Albatross, shearwaters, storm petrels, auklets, murres, jaegers, and fulmars can be found and will be identified by your guide. Schedule subject to weather. You never know what you will see next when birding as far west as possible in Canada where the continental shelf meets the deep water of the Pacific Ocean. Pelagic trips from Tofino have recorded the following species: Laysan and Black-footed Albatross, Northern Fulmar, Mottled Petrel, Pink-footed, Flesh-footed, Bullers, Sooty. Short-tailed and Black-vented Shearwaters, Fork-tailed and Leach's Storm Petrels, Brown Pelican, South Polar Skua, Pomarine, Parastic and Long-tailed Jaegers, Slaty-backed Gull, Sabines Gull, Arctic Tern, Common and Thick-billed Murres, Pigeon Guillemot,Marbled Murrelet, Ancient, Xantus', Cassins', Parakeet and Rhinoceros Auklets, Atlantic, Tufted and Horned Puffins. Marvel at the soaring grace of an albatross or a whirling flock of Phalaropes at sea.
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"I ended up with 10 lifers!"
"When we reached the place the captain called "the canyon" on our Pelagic tour, the fun began. Northern Fulmar, was the shout from the guide, pointing emphatically to the left, Black-footed Albatross off to the right. Minutes later the loud call, Bullers and Sooty Shearwaters!....... I ended up with ten lifers!........, thank you so much."
- Gary Breault Creston BC
"We very much enjoyed the tour, thank you for putting it together. What a great birthday present for me, 15 new birds for my life list and even my namesake gull. I was very happy to meet Sabine's gull and everybody else for that matter. Bill and I had a great time and recommend pelagic tours with Just Birding. What a great way to see sea birds etc."
- Bill and Sabine, Vancouver BC
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Mailing address: PO Box 990, Tofino BC V0R 2Z0 info@justbirding.com