Discrepancies Over Published Locations Have Been Resolved

Species

St / Prov / Terr / Island

Date yyyymmdd

Wandering Albatross

XXXX [prior to 1884? PCD]

FL

Wandering Albatross

188505XX

FL

18850820 Yellow-nosed Albatross [some authors (e.g., Murphy [originally recorded as "Pink-footed 1936 and Bull 1961) Albatross" which was lumped with erroneously state "Sep 1884" Yellow-nosed by the AOU in 1944. PCD] PCD]

QC [referred to by Murphy (1936) as "Labrador"; see Bull 1960. PCD]

Yellow-nosed Albatross [originally recorded as "Pink-footed 19130801 Albatross" which was lumped with Yellow-nosed by the AOU in 1944. PCD]

NB ME

Yellow-nosed Albatross

NL

1928-prior to [PCD]

Diomedea species

19340723 ("found a few days previous ME to 7/23") 1934XX - summer [year is ambiguous due to a poorly constructed sentence ME by Norton; I agree with Post that the year is 1934 rather than 1913. PCD] 19481107 NY

Black-browed Albatross

19561112

MQ [Martinique]

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19580713

FL

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19600321 [Palmer incorrectly reported this date as 05/21, which was repeated in Bourne as two ME sightings on 03/21 and 05/21. Only 03/21 is described. PCD]

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19600529

NY

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19610815

QC/NL/NB/NS?

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19640512

ME

Albatross species

19670604

NJ

Yellow-nosed Albatross

Albatross species

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19680712

NS

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19700509

LA

Albatross species

19700814

NS

19700907

NH

197010??

NH

1970s-early

NJ

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19710507

MA

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19710608

NY

Albatross species first reported as Yellow-nosed?; later changed to Black-browed Albatross

19710925

NH

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19720514

TX

Black-browed Albatross

19720628

MA

Albatross species

197206XX

NJ

Diomedea species Albatross species

19720702 19720713 197207XX ["mid July"]

MA MA

Black-browed Albatross

19720819

NC

"Albatross-sized" bird

19720819

Albatross speces [reported as Yellow-nosed?] Albatross species Yellow-nosed Albatross and/or Black-browed Albatross

"Albatross-like" birds

NJ

NS ME 197208XX "Albatrosslike" bird

["early August"]

NJ

Albatross species

19730521

NY

Black-browed Albatross Black-browed Albatross Black-browed Albatross

19730527 19730626 19730705

NY NS NJ

Black-browed Albatross

19730916

MA

Black-browed Albatross

19740913

FL

Black-browed Albatross

19741007

NJ

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19750201

MD

Yellow-nosed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross

19750620 19760614

NL MA

Diomedea species

19760623

BM [Bermuda]

Black-browed Albatross

19760711

MA

Diomedea species [reported as Black-browed]

19760724 [recorded on MARC web database as 07/25. PCD]

MA

Black-browed Albatross 19760801 [reported as Albatross - Black-browed?]

NH and ME

Black-browed Albatross

19760801

NH

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19760810

NY

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19760820

NS

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19760821

RI

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19761028

TX

Yellow-nosed Albatross

197610XX

NC

Albatross species

19761128

TX

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19780417

NC

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19780419

NC

Black-browed Albatross

19780528

ME

Yellow-nosed Albatross

197810XX

NC

Albatross species Albatross species Yellow-nosed Albatross Albatross species

197905XX 19790707 19790730 19790816

RI RI NL NB or NS

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19790821

RI

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19791203

VA MD

Black-browed Albatross

198006XX ("early June")

RI

Black-browed Albatross

19800715

NL

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19801024

NH

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19811128

VA MA [state designation may be equivocal] FL NS PM [St. Pierre & Miquelon]

Albatross species ["thought to be Black-browed"]

19820502

Yellow-nosed Albatross Black-browed Albatross

19820703 19830715

Black-browed Albatross

19850625

Albatross species

19851222

Black-browed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross

19860721 NS 19870805 NS 1988 - 2008 ["within the last 20 years" - D. Seeler pers. comm. 2008] PE Summer season (01 Jun - 15 Aug)

Black-browed Albatross

NC

Albatross species [reported as Yellow-nosed]

19890101

DE

Yellow-nosed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross

19890108 19890524 19890528

NJ NS NS

Black-browed Albatross

19891024

NJ

Black-browed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross

19910823 19920527

NS FL

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19930524

NB

Yellow-nosed Albatross Albatross species [reported as Yellow-nosed]

19930620

NB

19931004 & 07

MA

Diomedea species [submitted as Yellow-nosed] Diomedea species [reported as Yellow-nosed]

19940508

NY

19950105

FL

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19950109

TX

Black-browed Albatross

19960527

NY

Diomedea species [submitted as Black-browed]

19960921

MA [probably MA waters]

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19970422

NC

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19970711

TX

Black-browed Albatross

19971225

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19971228

Black-browed Albatross

19980609

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19980712

NY

Diomedea species [submitted as Yellow-nosed]

19990106

FL

Black-browed Albatross

19990206

VA

Yellow-nosed Albatross

19990706

ME

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20000205

NC

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20000501

FL

BA [Bahamas] NH BA [Bahamas]

20000509 Yellow-nosed Albatross

Yellow-nosed Albatross

MA 1145h 20000509 1730h [reported as 05/15 by Laux 2000b and Burgiel et al. 2000. PCD]

NY

Yellow-nosed Albatross [I believe this to be an albatross sp. PCD]

20000511

MD

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20000521-23 [presumed to be the same bird PCD]

NJ

20000527

NJ

20000604 1430 h

RI

20000605 1100 h

MA

Albatross species Yellow-nosed Albatross [however, RIBRC decision leaves open the possibility of Albatross, sp. PCD] Yellow-nosed Albatross

Albatross species

20000618

NY

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20000710

CT

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20011030

RI

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20030602

MA

Albatross species [submitted as Yellow-nosed]

20030829

MA

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20030926

TX

20040317

VA

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20040411

NC

Black-browed Albatross

200406??

NL

Black-browed Albatross

200406??

NL

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20040610

FL

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20050529

MA

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20050531

MA

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20050618

MD

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20060411

NC

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20060514

MA

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20060606

MA

Albatross species [submitted as Yellow-nosed] Albatross species [submitted as Yellow-nosed]

20060606 2 pm 20060606 3 pm

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20060608

TX

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20060611

ME

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20060716-20 [last date was 7/20 rather then 7/19 as published in Petersen]

ME

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20060921

LA

Albatross species [submitted as Black-browed]

NH NH

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20070428

ME [unsure if this also qualifies as a MA record since the bird was transported and subsequently died in MA? PCD]

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20070506

NS

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20070611

ME

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20070716-20

ME

Yellow-nosed Albatross

20090606

MD

Location

#Birds / Age

Tampa Bay

1

Ward's Bank, mouth of the St. Johns River, twenty miles south of Jacksonville, Duval County

1

near mouth of Moisie River on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Gulf

1 imm

taken near Machias Seal Island, Machias Bay, Washington County [ME] off Grand Manan Island; near the mouth of the Bay of Fundy [NB] [very likely occurred in both ME and NB waters - see Murphy (1922)]

1 adult

unknown among sedges by a brook, about 40 miles inland at East Freyburg, Oxford County

1 1 adult

Cod Ledges Casco Bay, Cumberland County [stated by Palmer]

1

Jones Beach, Long Island

1

off Vauclin

1

about 20 miles off New Smyrna Beach [18 miles se of Turtle Mound], Brevard County

off Monhegan Island, Monhegan Township, Lincoln County

3 km south of Jones Beach State Park, Long Island, Nassau County Gulf of St. Lawrence

1 adult

1

1 adult 5 [!]

nine miles southeast of Monhegan Island, Monhegan Township, Lincoln County

1

off Cape May

1

from MV Bluenose 50 km off Yarmouth flying above the breakers, a few miles west of Holly Beach, Cameron Parish

1 1 adult

skimming through Petit Passage, the narrow strait between Long Island [NS] and the peninsula of Digby Neck

1

Old Scantum Ledge, 7 mi. SE of Isle of Shoals

1

"inside Shoals"

1

from the New York Bight, especially at or near Hudson Canyon off Bird Island, Buzzard's Bay, off Marion on the beach, Gardiner's Island, Long Island, Suffolk County

several single bird sightings 1 subadult 1 adult

7 miles E of Hampton Harbor

1

South Padre Island jetties, Padre Island National Seashore, Cameron County [previous discrepancies over published locations have been resolved (M Lockwood pers. comm. 2008); the above information is correct; Nueces County is incorrect. PCD]

1

seen from shore at Bird Island in Buzzard's Bay, Marion County Hudson Canyon, far offshore

2 prob sub-adults several

off Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard Martha's Vineyard

1 1

seen flying 100 miles east of Manasquan Inlet

2

48 mi south of Morehead City

2

on the water seen from the "Bluenose" ferry between Bar Harbor, ME, and Yarmouth, NS

1

45 miles east-southwest of Manasquan

2

flying across the Belt Parkway at Gravesend Bay at the Narrows, Brooklyn, NY

1

Hudson Canyon about 55 mi. from North Sydney, NS, along the ferry route to Argentia, NL from a party fishing boat, 5 mi offshore of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey

1 1 near adult 1 adult

seen from the ferry between Hyannis and Nantucket, in Nantucket Sound

1 subadult

21 miles off Cape Canaveral, Brevard County

1

from shore at Cape May Point

Baltimore Canyon, 90 km east of Ocean City [38d 19mN 73d 52mW] off Baccalieu Island Cultivator Shoals, NW Georges Bank Checkerboard, Spittal Pond 18 miles east of Rockport at Jeffrey's Ledge

2 birds: 1 adult and 1 imm

1 sub- to nearadult 1 1 adult 1 1 adult

flying over the Plum Island causeway 30 km east of Newburyport harbor

1

inshore of the Isle of Shoals, Rockingham County, aboard the M/V Atlantic Queen

1

20 miles off Rye, NH at location called "Old Scantum" aboard M/V Atlantic Queen [Finch: "12 miles east of Hampton"]

1

Croton Bay, Croton Point. Westchester County 70 km west of Yarmouth, observed from the Bluenose ferry Cox's Ledge, a submarine plateau and fishing ground ca. 65 km (40 mi) eastsoutheast of Montauk Point, LI, NY, and partly in MA and partly in Rl waters found 4 mi west of Port Mansfield, South Padre Island, Willacy County

1 adult 1 adult or nearadult 1 subadult 1 adult

offshore Oregon Inlet

1

aboard an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico 75 mi. S 25ºE of Galveston, Tex

1

59 km SE of Oregon Inlet, Dare County 37 mi SE of Oregon Inlet off Lumbo Ledge, 3 mi e.s.e. of Bailey Island

1 adult 1 1 adult

offshore Oregon Inlet

1

in the area of Cox's Ledge about 11 miles east of Block Island's southeast lighthouse from the CN ferry Marine Cruise approximately 2 h from Argentia seen between Grand Manan, NB, and Yarmouth, NS Cox's Ledge, a submarine plateau and fishing ground ca. 65 km (40 mi) eastsoutheast of Montauk Point, LI, NY, and partly in MA and partly in Rl waters

1 1 1 1 1 subadult

Atlantic Ocean 38-01N, 74-04W, approximately 88 km east of the MD-VA line.

on Cox's Ledge (eastern side) off the southwest coast of [NL] during a ferry crossing from North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Argentia, Newfoundland Scantum Basin, near S. end of Jeffries Ledge; LORAN A location: 44357, 13639 from the shoreline of Back Bay NWR

s.e. corner of George's Bank near St. Marks Light, St. Marks NWR from the ferry in Cabot Strait, 50 km NE of Sydney

1 imm or sub adult

1 1 1 imm 1

1 adult 1 1 1

in North Carolina waters 35+E12038’N, 74º56’W from the Cabot Strait Ferry Cabot Strait, seen from the Sydney, NS to Argentia, NL ferry

1 imm 1 1

unknown

1

from Cape Henlopen

2

Belmar Two miles west of Seal Island Seal Island

1 1 1

Manasquan Inlet, Monmouth County

1

from the Bluenose ferry, about 20 minutes south of Yarmouth Key Largo, Monroe County circling over the mouth of Halls Creek, Dieppe/Moncton; Westmoreland County; eventually heading south down the Petitcodiac River off New Brunswick off Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard

1 1 subadult 1 adult 1 adult 1-2

flying over Crown Point Peninsula, 2 mi. se of Port Henry, Lake Champlain, Moriah, Essex County

1

152 meters from east end of Lake Worth Pier, Palm Beach County

1

off Port O'Connor, Calhoun County

1

over the Atlantic Ocean off Tobay Beach, Jones Beach, Hempstead, Long Island, Nassau County

1 adult

off South Beach from Morris Island, Chatham, Barnstable County

1 imm

from the shore on the Outer Banks at Whalebone, Dare County

1

San Jose Island, Aransas County

1

Conception Island

1

44 Jacuith Road, Hancock

2

off Exuma

1

21 miles southeast of Fire Island Inlet, Suffolk County Lake Worth Pier, Palm Beach County

1 or 2 1

65 nmi off Virginia Beach at Norfolk Canyon

1 imm

seen near Matinicus Rock in outer Penobscot Bay, Criehaven Township, Knox County

1 adult

Three miles off Avon/Salvo northeastern Gulf of Mexico, about 50 km west of Tarpon Springs, Pinellas County Penikese Island, one of the westernmost of the Elizabeth Islands, Buzzards Bay (just n. of Martha's Vineyard), Dukes County

Robbins Rest, 7 km east of Fire Island Lighthouse, Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, Suffolk County

in flight and on the water (20-30 ft away) at Assateague Island, National Seashore, Berlin, Worcester County 5/21: Garden State Parkway, south of Shellbay Landing, Cape May Courthouse, Cape May County 5/23: Delaware Bay Shore, Reeds Beach and Highs Beach, Goshen, Cape May County

1 subadult 1 1 adult

1 adult

1

1 adult

Manasquan Inlet, Ocean County

1

over the woods and shoreline at South Kingston, Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge, Washington Co., along RI's south coast

1

Tom Nevers Head, on the extreme southeastern corner of Nantucket Island, Dukes County

1 adult

29 km southeast of Fire Island Inlet

1 unaged

seen from a moving automobile as the bird crossed the 1-95 bridge over the Housatonic River between the towns of Stratford and Milford

1

Green Hill

1

First Encounter Beach, Cape Cod Bay, Eastham, Barnstable County

1

Nahant Bay, Essex County

1

about 50m east of Port Isabel, off South Padre Island; Cameron County

1 adult

off Virginia Beach

1

flying over Cape Hatteras Point, Dare County

1

60-80 miles off Black Tickle on the south Labrador coast

1

off Cartwright, Labrador, the same coastal area where the Black Tickle bird was photographed

1

6 miles south of Pensacola Beach, Escambia County

1

Tuckernuck Island, Nantucket County

1 adult

flying eastward past the s. end of South Monomoy Island, Chatham, Barnstable County

1

Atlantic Ocean 26.8 miles ESE of Ocean City Inlet, 3 miles NE of "Jackspot."

1

on the beach at Cape Hatteras Point

1

Barnstable, Sandy Neck, Barnstable County

1 adult

Rockport, Andrews Point, Essex County

1 adult

south side of Great Boars Head, Hampton Beach

1 adult

between Plaice Cove and Little Boars Head Beach, Hampton, Rockingham County

1 adult

North Padre Island, Kenedy/Willacy Counties over the Royal River Boat Yard, from Hiway 295, Yarmouth, Cumberland County

1 1 adult

Stratton Island, Old Orchard Beach, in Saco Bay, York County

1

at Holly Beach, Cameron Parish

1

found wrecked at Cape Neddick in York, York County (rehabbed, released and recaptured several times in MA 20 May - 26 Jun before expiring)

1

in the open Atlantic Ocean due south of Liverpool 43.325ºN 64.734ºW

1

Yarmouth, Cumberland County

1

Old Orchard Beach, Stratton Island, York County

1

Assateague Island, Off Road Vehicle Zone

1

Status / Documentation specimen referenced but never produced considered to be "hypothetical" per Stevenson and Anderson (1994) sight report considered to be "hypothetical" per Howell (1932) specimen originally deposited in the Séminaire de Québec now held at the Musée de la civilisation MCQ #1995.2760

specimen

specimen [hypothetical per Austin; accidental per Peters and Burleigh] specimen Portland Society of Natural History [collection dispersed; probably no longer extant PCD]

sight report

feather specimen specimen collection??? #??? sight record

sight record sketch Accepted by ME-BRC

photograph [recognized by NYSARC - see Andrle 1996] sight report[s] sight record sketch Accepted by ME-BRC sight report hypothetical [per Leck]

sight record photograph Accepted by LBRC sight record sight record sight record sight reports sketch Accepted by MARC sight record [never submitted to NYSARC for review, contra Finnegan] sight record sight record [Finnegan reported that a specimen exists, but this is not correct (M. Lockwood pers. comm. 2008) PCD] Accepted by TBRC sight record Not reviewed by MARC sight reports hypothetical [per Leck] sight report sight report sight report ["questionable" per Veit"] sight record Accepted by NCBRC sight report sight report ["questionable" per Veit"] sight report [not submitted to NYSARC] sight report sight report sight report sight report Accepted by MARC sight report [Mlodinow reports this as rejected, but this sighting was not reviewed by FOSRC per Kratter (pers. comm. 2008). PCD]

sight report published in Leck [Mlodinow says this was rejected by the NJBRC; however, this sight report predated the NJBRC who subsequently considered it to be undocumented and not actionable [Larson (pers. comm. 2008).] PCD] photograph Accepted by MD/DCRC sight record sight record sight report single observer sighting - notes and sketches considered hypothetical by Amos sight record Accepted by MARC sight record Accepted by MARC as genus only Sight report Sight report sight record (post Hurricane Belle) Accepted by NYSARC sight record sight record specimen U.T. Pan American collection (no specimen #) Accepted by TBRC sight report Not Accepted by NCBRC sight report [Not reviewed by TRBC] sight report Not Accepted by NCBRC sight report Not Accepted by NCBRC sight record [currently considered hypothetical by ME-BRC; yet to be reviewed] sight report Not Accepted by NCBRC sight report sight report sight report sight record photograph

sight record Accepted by VARCOM VARCOM status: previously "Hypothetical" (Kain) - only due to lack of specimen or photo for 1st state record; now "accepted" (Cat 2) per Rottenborn and Brinkley MD/DCRC status: not yet reviewed - documentation just located (P Davis, pers. comm. 2008) sight report sight record hypothetical - per Godfrey] sight report sight record hypothetical - per VARC; only due to no specimen or photo for 1st state record

sight record photograph sight record sight report unpublished anectodal hypothetical (Etcheberry pers. comm. 2008) sight report Not Accepted by NCBRC sight report sight record hypothetical

sight report sketches [89th CBC - Cape Henlopen-Prime Hook, DE; not published in CBC results [in AB 43(4):770-771. PCD] Not Accepted by DRBC sight report sight report photograph sight record previously accepted but reversed in 2008 to "Not Accepted" by NJBRC sight record specimen photographs ("two slightly distant black-and-white shots) sight record videotaped Accepted by MARC as Albatross species

Accepted by NYSARC as genus sight record sight report Not Accepted by TBRC sight report Not Accepted by NYSARC sight report Accepted as Diomedea species sight report Not Accepted by NCBRC specimen Accepted by TBRC sight record considered to be unsubtantiated by White Not Accepted by NHBRC sight record considered to be unsubtantiated by White sight report Not Accepted by NYSARC sight report Accepted by FOSRC as genus only photograph Accepted-Cat 1 video and photos ME-BRC status: in circulation photograph Accepted by NCBRC photograph Accepted by FOSRC photograph Accepted by MARC

photograph [never submitted to NYSARC] sight record sketches Not Accepted by MD/DCRC photographed Accepted by NJBRC Sight report sight report Rejected by RIBRC sight report Not Accepted by MARC

sight report Not Accepted by NYSARC sight record Not Accepted by ARCC sight report Rejected by RIBRC sight report Accepted by MARC sight report Accepted by MARC as Albatross species photograph Accepted by TBRC sight record Accepted by VARCOM as Cat2 - Albatross species photograph Accepted by NCBRC photographed close, sitting on the water, by a fisherman [Copy of image provided to PCD] sight report sight report Not Accepted by FOSRC photographs Accepted by MARC sight report [Not formally submitted to MARC] sight report by an experienced birder [Not yet reviewed by the MD/DCRC] photograph Accepted by NCBRC sight record Accepted by MARC sight record Accepted by MARC sight report Accepted by NHBRC sight report Accepted by NHBRC sight report Not Accepted by TBRC sight report [Not reviewed by ME-BRC] videotaped (vocalizing) photographed Accepted by ME-BRC sight record sketches and notes hypothetical pending review by LBRC

specimen skull specimen being transferred to MCZ (#????) Accepted by ME-BRC

sight report submitted to NSBRC sight report "possible" sighting photographed Accepted by ME-BRC recent report