>I saw the following birds yesterday, April 10, 1994, in coastal Lincoln
>County, Oregon. One tufted puffin and two rhinoceros auklets were at
>Yaquina Head. About twelve marbled murrelets and two oldsquaws were off
>Seal Rock. Twenty-four whimbrels, one marbled godwit, two Bonaparte's
>gulls, and seven Caspian terns were at Idaho Flats in Yaquina Bay.
>
>Kathy Merrifield
>OSU Botany

This is the first Tufted Puffin report I'm aware of this year. They seem
to be extremely late. I'm worried that another consecutive year of warm
water and corresponding lack of nesting success might really start to
impact the population. Does anyone know if Puffins have returned to
other nesting sites in the northwest?

Skip

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