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(fwd) Re: Trip Report: North Carolina Pelagics, 6/2/00 -- 6/4/00
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: (fwd) Re: Trip Report: North Carolina Pelagics, 6/2/00 -- 6/4/00
- From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:56:58 -0400
- Priority: normal
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
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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