Jerry Blinn quotes, approvingly: "It's all such a pile of petrel doodoo."

Yep.

I hear it's called the ACADEMIC PETREL, by the way.
Highly competetive and very conscious of its place in the pecking order.
Unlike other petrel species it does quite well at feathering its own nest.
Apparently there is a resident flock in the Puget Sound basin.

David Beatty
DJ Beatty