A search of eBird data (Explore Data -- Species Maps -- filters: Great
Shearwater - May and June - Current Year - Massachusetts) produced
results that indicate a corresponding lack of Great (and Cory's)
shearwaters from Cape Cod and coastal New England waters (Block Island
to Maine) as a whole: https://tinyurl.com/y8j4fqg7
Compare the low number of map pins, checklists and number of shearwaters
reported this year, to the same period in 2016:
https://tinyurl.com/y9ga2eyb
2015: https://tinyurl.com/y9fbmjqp
and 2014: https://tinyurl.com/yacldwsb
I have monitored the MA listserv - http://birding.aba.org/maillist/MASS
- on a fairly regular basis during the Spring and Fall migration periods
over the past several years. In 2016 the anecdotal evidence from posts
to that list (as well as the eBird data linked to above) indicate that,
while 2016 was an exceptional year in terms of the high numbers of
shearwaters, 2017 is shaping up to be at the opposite extreme. This year
the combination of factors in the Atlantic (whatever they may be) that
has wrecked Great Shearwaters in NY waters, also appears to have stymied
their progress to their "wintering" grounds farther north as well.
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NYSbirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm
ARCHIVES:
1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html
2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L
3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01
Please submit your observations to eBird:
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
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