Table 1. Number and percentage of beached birds examined and oiled (a). 



(a) Data for Great Britain, the south Atlantic coast of the United States, 

 the Oregon-Washington coast, and the California coast are from Table 1 

 in Bourne (1976), Malcolm Simons ( in litt .) , Table 2 jji Harrington-Tweit 

 (1979), and Table 3 in Ainley (1976), respectively; the periods covered 

 are 1968-1970, December 1977-August 1978, mid-winter 1976, and 1971-1975, 

 respectively. Data for the southeastern coast through 1 December 1977 are 

 based on surveys from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, 

 Florida, thereafter south to Jensen Beach, Florida. 



(b) Although Bourne (1976) did not specifically so state, his term 'petrels' 

 probably indicates all Procellariidae (petrels, shearwaters, fulmars, 

 etc.), and may have included Hydrobatidae (storm-petrels) as well. His 

 term 'gulls' probably indicates all Laridae (gulls and terns). For other 

 material summarized here, 'petrels' refers to Pterodroma , 'shearwaters' 

 to Puffinus , 'gulls' to Larus , and 'terns' to Sterninae. 



(c) Harrington-Tweit (1979) pointed out that fulmar mortality and at least 

 half that of Black-legged Kittiwakes was not due to oil but that most 

 wildfowl and alcid mortality was attributable to oil. 



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