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Courtship Display |
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Ruth Sullivan caught this American Bittern courtship display at Ridgefield
NWR, 4/28/2002.
Note the very visible white fanlike "ruffs" raised
over the back and shoulders. Copyright Ruth Sullivan. |
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Longline Fishing Devastating Seabird
Populations |
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Black-footed Albatross photos copyright Diann
MacRae |
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Ruth Sullivan photographed one of three
juvenile Long-billed Curlew at the Ocean Shores Game Range, Grays
Harbor, on August 12, 2001. |
Black-bellied Plover, Jensen Access,
Skagit, 8/5/2001. Photo by Patrick Sullivan |
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| A Snowy Plover chick leaps to
catch up, Ocean Shores Game Range, Grays Harbor, 8/15/2001. Photo by
Ruth Sullivan. |
Adult Snowy Plover, Ocean
Shores Game Range, Grays Harbor, 8/10/2001. Photo by Ruth Sullivan.
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Ruth Sullivan’s study of flying Black-legged
Kittiwake.
She counted 53 of them on 8/12/2001 at the Copalis Beach Access,
Griffiths-Priday Ocean State Park, Grays Harbor. |
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Patrick Sullivan’s study of a perched
Black-legged Kittiwake, Ocean Shores Jetty, Grays Harbor,
8/18/2001. |
Wandering tattler, Ocean Shores Jetty,
Grays Harbor, 8/15/2001. Photo by Patrick Sullivan |
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Marsh Wren photo by Margaret Saint Clair,
Juanita Bay Wetlands Park, King. |