In a message dated 95-12-21 Marie Churney wrote:

>Having spent the last few days at Cannon beach I checked out the
>dead birds on the beach - several were large as a gull, dark,
>had a hooked beak, yellow, with a tube on the top on the upper
>third of the bill - is this some kind ofshearwater?
>
>

northern fulmars, ...and to expand on Dennis Paulson's reply, the die off in
early December appears to have been massive and far reaching, ranging from
much of coastal Oregon, all of Washington, and much of southern BC, at least.
In total, many thousands. Just along the length of the Long Beach
Peninsuala, Pacific Co., WA,
I counted a steady 40-60 per mile.