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short flights, gray back (possibly with stripes between wings as in 
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Northern Phalarope); white head underparts; pronounced white wing stripe; 
long neck; sat high cm water in typical phalarope attitude; tail pattern 
black or dark central stripe separating white patches along sides, 
entire tip of tail dark; bird in typical winter plumage but not close 
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enough to allow species d iff erent 1st i on by bask markings on bill shape and 
color. " Sundell has had previous contact with all three North American 
species of PhaXaropSj. 
A small feeding flock of 5* 2 Sooty Terns was seen at a distance 
of a mile or so. Birds were observed to be tutting the water. AT 1124 
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the second white-tailed tropicblrd of the trip was seen as it apparently 
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was gaining altitude from sitting on the water. Both Harcourt's sp’s 
seen today were type B. 
The phalarope sighting is the first for the fttcific Project. No 
Sooty Shearwaters were seen today. 
Kerch 2 6 — Started the day with two Sooty Terns across the bow at 0610. 
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At 0654 two shorebirde, either Sander lings or Phalaropes were seen by 
Sundell, Again at 1151 a a similar shcrebird was seen by King. . Due to n 
bad light and distance it was Impossible to determine species. All the 
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s so far have been similar, all quite small and light colored. 
All four Wedge tails today ware light phase. Two cf the three Harcourts 
SPs for the day were type B, the third was spotted by the watch. Two 
Sooty Shearwaters, both seen quite well, one at 1031 and the other- at 1640 
both heading northwest. The trips second Fairy Tern was seen by Sundell 
at 1347 close in. fourth Bulwer's Petrel came by heading roughly 
