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(fwd) Re: Trip Report: North Carolina Pelagics, 6/2/00 -- 6/4/00



This was posted to Birdchat yesterday -- anyone care to reply?

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Date:    Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:54:03 -0400
From:    Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@HOME.COM>
Subject: Re: Trip Report: North Carolina Pelagics, 6/2/00 -- 6/4/00

At 10:14 AM 06/06/00 -0700, Martin Meyers wrote:

>one of the
>British birders managed to sputter out "Cahow!".  And so it was.  A 
BERMUDA
>PETREL was flying by very close to the boat!

Without wishing to rain on anyone's parade, how do you know?  Sometimes 
Black-capped Petrels are found lacking the typical white collar and 
white rump that separates normal birds from Cahows - was this 
possibility considered?  According to Harrison's "Seabirds" the B-C is 
slightly larger than a Cahow, has rather darker upperparts and, in the 
plumae mentioned, a faint suggestion of a paler hindcollar.  

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