Their main wintering area is remote enough that they are rarely detected during this season even around Japan\u2019s distant oceanic islands.\u00a0 Typhoons have occasionally transported significant numbers to the coast of Honshu.<\/p>

Movements.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 The general pattern of migration around the Pacific appears to be counterclockwise.\u00a0 In April and May, they depart roughly west-northwest from Chilean waters through Polynesia, passing mostly south of Hawaii.\u00a0 When returning in September and October, they pass through Hawaiian waters, then turn south.<\/p>

Wanderers have been recorded several times in the northeastern Pacific, in the waters off of Oregon and California, mainly in October and November, and on the opposite side of the ocean in the southwestern Pacific, in the waters of New Zealand, eastern Australia, and Tasmania.\u00a0 There are enough records to suggest that low numbers may occur regularly in both regions.<\/p>

One extraordinary vagrant was found dead on the Gulf of Mexico shore of Nueces County, Texas (September 15, 1995).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t