Thank you for posting this Shai. If you do find a freshly dead Shearwater, or any other unusual wrecked seabird, please do consider salvaging it for the AMNH. If you could freeze the specimen and record locality and date, we can make arrangements to collect. I recommend double bagging.
Paul Paul Sweet | Collection Manager | Department of Ornithology | American Museum of Natural History | 200 Central Park West | NY 10024 | Tel 212 769 5780 | Mob 718 757 5941 > On Jun 9, 2022, at 9:07 PM, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote: > > EXTERNAL SENDER > > > This morning Patricia Lindsay and I found one dead Great Shearwater and four > dead Sooty Shearwaters along ca. two miles of beachfront at Democrat Point, > southwestern Suffolk County. Mentioning this to others in our circle, I > learned second-hand of reports today of many dead shearwaters along the beach > in the Montauk area. If you are visiting the beaches over the next few days, > please take a few minutes to check the wrack line for these birds. If unsure > of the identification, please take a photo and feel free to contact me. If > the bird is in fresh condition (checking the eyes is an easy way to tell), > consider salvaging it for Paul Sweet at the American Museum of Natural > History. If you cover some ground searching, be sure to measure or estimate > the distance covered. > > Many on this list will remember June 2017, when there was a spectacular > inshore movement of Great Shearwaters along the whole Long Island coast, > including much further west than usual, followed by the discovery of large > numbers of dead birds. > > We also saw living Great and Cory's Shearwaters this morning, our first of > the year. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northeastbirding.com%2FNYSbirdsWELCOME.htm&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0e1afcaa2584429bd46608da4a539cdb%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637904020248398366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=g7Y%2F2CC3xvyJSME9Ne%2B4henIcP7srnvRaCC4PyXwQiA%3D&reserved=0 > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northeastbirding.com%2FNYSbirdsRULES.htm&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0e1afcaa2584429bd46608da4a539cdb%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637904020248398366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=eWigZ7metjnnN885qTZhX%2Bl13rj3v7bZYDs%2F4G4u0Qw%3D&reserved=0 > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northeastbirding.com%2FNYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0e1afcaa2584429bd46608da4a539cdb%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637904020248398366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zUVe89s0FEOpwOPlzfTvxua7f4Pou8eE3wyeop72zs0%3D&reserved=0 > > ARCHIVES: > 1) > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fnysbirds-l%40cornell.edu%2Fmaillist.html&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0e1afcaa2584429bd46608da4a539cdb%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637904020248398366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yEtxUZjQ9dziYK%2BSTbQr1KBz3pkJ0KA9z1Zhm66Nkrs%3D&reserved=0 > 2) > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surfbirds.com%2Fbirdingmail%2FGroup%2FNYSBirds-L&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0e1afcaa2584429bd46608da4a539cdb%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637904020248398366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9LnE2GgLE8C6mNp0MsZB9dgwKuWXa57MY3AdhB72SGY%3D&reserved=0 > 3) > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbirding.aba.org%2Fmaillist%2FNY01&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0e1afcaa2584429bd46608da4a539cdb%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637904020248398366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JBNqX3sOAMtsO%2BuOZrt9KQLaTvJykRnxlQkjq6FLYWE%3D&reserved=0 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Fcontent%2Febird%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0e1afcaa2584429bd46608da4a539cdb%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637904020248398366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EBaQnrhp4ro%2FAYXqVmofMXGm6wLfp8VAEkRXyzqtBO4%3D&reserved=0 > > -- > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
