While 3 birds does not constitute a mass mortality event, I have been contacted today by two people with dead Sooty Shearwaters found on the beaches of the New York Bight. One at Far Rockaway and one on Monmouth Beach NJ. This follows the moribund bird mentioned by Chase from Robert Moses. Birders walking the beaches please keep their eyes open for dead seabirds and contact me if you find anything. If anyone is available to run out to Rockaway to pick up a bird for me please contact me off list. Thanks, Paul
Paul Sweet Collection Manager, Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024, USA T: 212 769 5780, C: 718 757 5941 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
