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Birding on the Condor Express This page will hopefully answer most of your questions about deepwater trips on the new Condor Express. Please note that I have no financial arrangement or agreement with the Condor Express. You'll find a quick, easy sign up form you can fill out, print and send in to reserve a space on the latest, greatest way to go pelagic birding. We've also included links to most of the relevant pages at this site so you can reach them directly from here. Pertinent pages such as the boat trip pack list, or the SoCal Seabird Abundance Calendar page (which you should use to pick your dates), and the Arguello Canyon page can all be reached directly from here. Just peruse the frame to the left and click away! We will soon put up some pictures of the "water rocket" so you can learn to ID it :)! Structure and behavior are always a good key ... it's the biggest, fastest, newest, most stable, comfortable and modern, state-of-the-art vessel available for birdwatching in the Pacific! We will likely take a third of the 149 capacity on the deepwater birding trips to make sure everyone has plenty of "personal space". I rode the boat down from Crescent City to Santa Barbara and can tell you it would be worth the boat ride, regardless of birds! Having it at our disposal to chase what we find is the stuff dreams are made of and unprecedented! Trip reports from the old Condor trips will be posted here eventually too. These deep waters in the vicinity of Arguello have been very, very good to us over the last 7+ years. Multiple Cook's and a Dark-rumped Petrel, apparent Murphy's Petrels a couple of times. Red-tailed Tropicbird and Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel, Wedge-tailed Shearwater and Horned Puffin. Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses are regular. Just in case you needed some kind of sign .... :):) Leaders for the April trip besides myself are: ol' eagle-eyes, Dr. Barney Schlinger (found the Dark-rump); Don DesJardin to photo whatever we see; and Bernardo Alps, cetacean expert. Of course, the Captains of the Condor Express, are outstanding natural history leaders in their own right. Owner Fred Benko and Captains Ron Hart and Mat Curto are world-class professionals. Let me put it this way ... I've been on a lot of boats, some that I shouldn't have been on, and you couldn't be in better hands than with these guys! And, you couldn't be on a better boat than this one!

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