Subject: Re: N. Fulmar deaths - more questions
Date: Jan 11 13:37:47 1996
From: Raymond Korpi - rkorpi at clark.edu


On Wed, 10 Jan 1996 PAGODROMA at aol.com wrote:
> the beaches. Who knows what treasures may turn up out there. Alaskan alcids
> in late winter - spring maybe? There is always much we can learn from
> salvaging some of these and they are good as museum specimen records.

I looked very hard on Bayocean Spit near Tillamook on the 14th of December:
7 ancients, 1 rhino, 1 cassin's (they do have blue feet!), one murre (the
size difference between these alcids has never been so clearly emphasized
in the field as on the beach), 3 fulmars, 1
dead western grebe, two live western grebes (one got back to the water on
its own power, one I carried, both swam well after about 15 minutes), one
botton half of a red phalarope which had been eaten. Had a couple more
ancients, a couple mroe westerns, and a couple more fulmars the next day
near Rockaway BEach.
I highly recommend beachwalking; one can learn a
lot that is applicable later when you look at the dead things. RK
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