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Thursday, January 24, 2019

276. Leach's Storm-Petrel

Date         June 19, 2016
Location    on the ocean near Graham Island, British Columbia, Canada




I spent a fair amount of time on our balcony looking for pelagic birds. The first one I saw was a relatively small blackish bird that was basically following the ship. We were at the rear, so I could watch it continually. It was off the starboard stern.

As far as I could tell, it never got any closer or farther away from the ship for about 15 minutes. I couldn't see any detailed field marks on the bird itself, but its flying style and behavior were good clues.

I looked carefully at a map to determine that we were technically in Canadian waters.




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