There were several dead Manx on the beaches in the vicinity of East Hampton
last weekend (before I was aware of this thread of postings).
I personally saw a dead Manx on Wiborg Beach in East Hampton, and a friend took
a photo of two she found on ocean beach at Sagaponak.
These all last weekend.
Any chance of saving Cory’s and Manx for the museum? So far I’ve only heard
about Sooty and Great in the current die off.
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I was at the FINS area at Smith Point and spoke to a ranger about the dead
Cory's and Manx shearwaters I saw, he said there have also been dead Wilson's
storm petrels as well. I told him about the folks in Canada finding avian flu
in their dead shearwaters, he said that the NPS folks have found
