Unfortunately, the Shearwater wrecks in various parts of the country that are occurring in various parts of the country this and in other years natural selection in action. The birds that either fail to reach our shores or arrive only to expire on or soon after arriving obviously did not have the reserves to arrive in good enough shape to survive and breed. These wrecks are very sad to see, but they are natures way of culling. Carl Clifford =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================