...and am comfortable with the overall direction my species IDing process
went.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:05 PM Nathaniel Peters <
ncpeters at uw.edu> wrote:
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Howdy Tweets,
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I felt like I hit the jackpot today while crossing from Seattle to
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Bainbridge on the 9:35AM ferry with 2 jaeger sightings! I've never seen
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jaegers from a ferry before, and these sightings were quite close.
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5 min after leaving the Seattle terminal, a jaeger that struck me as
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having a relatively light, buoyant flight, and relatively slim, narrow
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body, for a jaeger, flew straight at the boat then past undereath me from
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about 100 feet away. Through binoculars I noted the dark back, contrasting
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barring under the wing and around the tail (beautiful!) with a lighter head
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and bright windows on the underwings. There appeared to be a small
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projection of the central tail feathers. It felt good for juvenile,
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light/lighter morph Long-tailed, but I am very much still a learner when it
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comes to "the nuances of jaeger," and Parasitic could also be possible. I
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did not think it had the barrel-chested, heavier appearance of a Pomarine.
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Later, 5 min out from the Bainbridge terminal, I saw an adult, light morph
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jaeger on the water. It was quite close, maybe 100-150 feet away. It had
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a very dark back with light breast and neck and a contrasting dark cap. As
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we passed it took flight, showing white windows on the underwing. I felt
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it had a bit bigger of a body than the first jaeger, and pointed but not
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notably long central tail feathers. This bird felt pretty good to me for
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light morph adult Parasiticp ll.
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Happy for any comments or questions. I am positive that they were both
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jaegers, and am
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May the* F*lu*OR*escen*CE* be with you!
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Nathaniel Peters Ph.D.
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University of Washington
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ncpeters at uw.edu
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May the* F*lu*OR*escen*CE* be with you!
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Nathaniel Peters Ph.D.
University of Washington
ncpeters at uw.edu
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