ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



More than 800 amateur naturalists and field ornithologists helped to 

 cover expenses for boats, chum, and correspondence, and participated in the 

 surveys. Without their inexhaustable enthusiasm, even when cold, wet, and 

 suffering the effects of "mal-de-mer," these observations would not have been 

 possible. I am indebted to Paul G. DuMont and Maurice V. Barnhill for helping 

 less-experienced participants with field identification. They also maintained 

 standards for recording observations during trips in my absence. 



The captains of the charter boats at Ocean City, Howard Cleaver, Dale 

 Brown, and Marvin Foxwell of the "Cap't Talbot," Darryl Nottingham of the 

 "Mariner," Orlando Bunting of the "Cap't Bunting, "and Ed Brex of the "Taurus," 

 were exceedingly helpful in providing information about the area, recording 

 LORAN coordinates, and demonstrating discretion and skill at maneuvering the 

 boats into position to observe animals under optimal conditions. 



I extend my appreciation to the following persons and agencies for pro- 

 viding room and board and for permitting my observations during extended 

 research cruises: Dr. Michael Champ, American University and the Marine 

 Science Consortium, and the crew of the Research Vessel (R.V.) "Advance 11" - 

 ocean pollution cruises during August 1974 and 1975; Dr. Donald Lear, Environ- 

 mental Protection Agency Field Office, Annapolis, Maryland, and the U.S. Coast 

 Guard and personnel of the USCGC "Alert," Cape May, New Jersey - ocean pollu- 

 tion cruise in February 1975; and the Office of Biological Services (OBS) and 

 the National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory (NFWL) - cruise aboard the R.V. 

 "Gyre," from Galveston, Texas, to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, January - Feb- 

 ruary 1977. 



Several captains allowed me to ride on one-day fishing trips, and Jim 

 Barlow and William Bunting provided passage aboard their lobster boat, "Jack 

 Pot," during summer 1977. 



Robert L. Pyle, United States Weather Service, provided photographs from 

 infrared sensitive imagery of the Landsat satellite system, and arranged for 

 my examination of weekly charts reconstructed from these satellite transmis- 

 sions, a part of the Experimental Gulf Stream Analysis (EGSA) program of the 

 Environmental Satellite Service (ESS). These were important in following the 

 seasonal distribution of Gulf Stream, slope, and shelf waters. 



The following people provided information from areas outside the study 

 area: David S. Lee (North Carolina), Fred R. Scott (Virginia), and P. William 

 Smith (New Jersey). 



The most useful field guides for seabird identification were those by 

 Alexander (1828), Bruun and Singer (1970), Peterson (1947,1966), Rough (1951), 

 Robbins et al. (1966), and Watson (1966). Excellent references for plumages 

 and behavior were those by Bent (1919, 1921, 1922), Cramp et al. (1974), 

 Dwight (1925), Fisher (1952), Fisher and Lockley (1954), Murphy (1936), Palmer 

 (1962), and Witherby et al. (1940, 1941). All common names of birds conform 

 to the A.O.U. Checklist (1957) and A.O.U. Committee on Classification and 

 Nomenclature (1973a, 1973b, 1976). 



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