We saw 20 of these beautiful birds in breeding plumage near the colony at Smith Island. As we headed towards Lopez Island we also found 2 surprises a Long-tailed Jaeger and an Ancient Murrelet. These birds are endangered in Washington State.
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We saw 20 of these beautiful birds in breeding plumage near the colony at Smith Island. As we headed towards Lopez Island we also found 2 surprises a Long-tailed Jaeger and an Ancient Murrelet. This bird is endangered in Washington.
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I love the unique faces of the Tufted Puffins. Did you know you can age puffins by the number of grooves on their upper bills? 1 groove is 1-2 years old, 2 grooves is 3 years and 3 grooves is an adult over 3 years. We saw 20 of these beautiful birds near the colony at Smith Island. As we headed towards Lopez Island we also found 2 surprises a Long-tailed Jaeger and an Ancient Murrelet.
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We saw at least 6 Puffins out at Cleland Island off Tofino on the Young Birder overnight trip! It was a lifer for 8 of the youth. Thanks to all 11 youth who attended, we had a great trip! You can read our full trip report here: daretobird.blogspot.ca/2018/05/young-birder-overnight-tri...
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These are spectacular birds in breeding plumage we saw 6 of them at Cleland Island. This bird was a lifer for 8 of the youth on board! :)
Thanks to the Whale Centre for making my youth trip a success when our pelagic got cancelled!
I love the wicked hairdos on these birds.
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