Hi tweets,

Carole Sheridan just called and said the Laysan Albatross that was in the
care of HOWL died and was necropsied (= made unavailable to
museums/educational institutions that would have cherished it as a
specimen), so there have been two of them in Puget Sound this week!

The HOWL bird supposedly came in on a barge. Did the Gig Harbor bird make
it on its own locomotion? Sounds like it's time to take some ferry trips.

Dennis

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html