Tubenoses
Owing to the rough and unpredictable waters of the Bering and North Pacific and the paucity of deep-water pelagic birding opportunities in Alaska the true pelagic species are some of the hardest to find of Alaska’s birds. The Alaska Checklist contains fifteen members from the order procellariiformes that have been documented in Alaskan waters. Three other species are on the unsubstantiated list. Of this list only Northern Fulmar, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, and Leach’s Storm-Petrel breed in Alaska.
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Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis Amukta Pass, Aleutian Islands, 25 April 2009.
Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes Amukta Pass, Aleutian Islands, 25 April 2009.
Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus with Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, Bering Sea, on the shelf-break about 140 miles west of St. Matthew Island, 3 August 2009.
Northern Fulmar Fulmaris glacialis, Bering Sea, 25 September 2009.
Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata, southern Bering Sea, 9 October 2009.
Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinis tenuirostris, Bering Sea, 25 September 2009.
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma furcata, Bering Sea, 4 October 2009.
