On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Mike Patterson wrote:

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> What characters did you use to distinguish it as looking like a petrels?
> Generally speaking petrels only wind up on the beach dead or nearly so.
> When nearly so, there feet are tucked up so laying on the beach is a more
> accurate description.
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> A description would be helpful, but I'm guessing you saw a Heermann's Gull.
> They are small, dark and different looking.
>

Or perhaps a jaeger.

Chris Hill
Everett, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu


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> >Tuesday I saw a distinctive bird at Myrtle Edward's Park that looked
> >like a Petrel. But, there was only one and it was on the ground with
> >Gulls. Is this probable/possible?
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