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WOSNews 79 Companion June / July 2002

Table of Contents

American Bittern Courtship Display Ruth Sullivan
Longline Fishing Devastating Seabird Populations Eugene Kridler
Washington Field Notes Aug/Sep 2001 Tom Aversa
Odds and Ends Diann MacRae

Web Addresses

Odds and Ends NatureServe Explorer http://www.natureserve.org/publications/biodiversity/summary.htm
  Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://birds.cornell.edu
Band Recoveries Bird Banding Laboratory http://www.pwrc.nbs.gov/bbl/

Photos

American Bittern Courtship Display
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.
Longline Fishing Devastating Seabird Populations
Black-footed Albatross photos copyright Diann MacRae
Washington Field Notes
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
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.
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.
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
Marsh Wren photo by Margaret Saint Clair, Juanita Bay Wetlands Park, King.

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