Subject: RE: Auklets
Date: Apr 13 14:41:00 1997
From: K Scarbrough - KScarbrough at compuserve.com


Susan,

I've seen Auklets performing this behavior several times and have the
impression that it is not unusal. Most impressive to me is when a pair
or more of auklets round up a really large school of herring. Soon the
gulls and cormorants arrived to participate in the plunder.

Kirk Scarbrough
Kent, WA

Message text written by INTERNET:tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 08:55:49 -0700
>From: "McDougall, Susan C" <Susan.McDougall at PSS.Boeing.com>
>To: "'tweeters at u.washington.edu'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: auklets, take ii
> ...<snip>...
>Soon the bird was seen on the surface (it had been submerged) again, and
then it dove once more.
> This phenomenon occurred another three times while I watched,
>the herring jumping up together as if to escape the attacking bird.
>The bird was a Rhinocerous Auklet, when it slowed from the fishing frenzy,
> I could clearly see the >"horn" on the bird. A couple of minutes later,
> the auklet came in towards the jetty and resumed diving near the Pelagic
>Cormorant I was observing, apparently not having eaten its fill!
>
>Has anyone observed this behavior?
>
>Susan McDougall
>Susan.C.McDougall at Boeing.Com<