Birds of Tierra del Mar, Tillamook Co., Oregon

Location: Tierra del Mar is a small, unincorporated community on the “Three Capes Scenic Route” between Cape Lookout and Cape Kiwanda in Tillamook County, Oregon (see map). I have owned a beach house there since 1989.

Pelagic birds seen from my beach house

(using Mike Patterson’s format)

KEY

e=easy; n=not-so-easy; o=once in a blue moon

[blank = hasn’t happened yet—and not very likely

for several of them!]

w=winter v=spring s=summer f=fall

Blue-footed Booby | |

BF Albatross | |

Laysan Albatross | |

N Fulmar | nf,w|

Mottled Petrel | |

Murphy's Petrel | |

PF Shearwater | of |

FF Shearwater | |

Buller's Shearwater | nf |

Manx Shearwater | os |

Black-vented Shearwater | of |

Sooty Shearwater | es,f|

ST Shearwater | nw |

FT Storm-petrel | |

Leach's Storm-petrel | |

Wilson's Storm-petrel | |

Black Storm-petrel | |

Magnif Frigatebird | |

Pomarine Jaeger | ns,f|

Parasitic Jaeger | nv,f|

Long-tailed Jaeger | |

South Polar Skua | |

BL Kittiwake | ef,w|

Sabine's Gull | os |

Arctic Tern | os |

Common Tern | ns |

Thick-billed Murre | |

Marbled Murrelet | e |

Ancient Murrelet | nf,w|

Xantus Murrelet | |

Parakeet Auklet | |

Cassin's Auklet | n |

Rhino Auklet | e |

Tufted Puffin | ns |

Horned Puffin | |

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