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Shearwater, Shearwater

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Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris, western Bering Sea, 27 July 2009.

Twenty foot seas are gone–today the sea was a mirror.  The feather detail of this molting Short-tailed Shearwater is clearer in the reflection than it is on the bird!

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