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From: s30986u@kaira.hut.fi (Martin Helin)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Bird War Victims
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.141739.3948@santra.uucp>
Date: 30 Jan 91 14:17:39 GMT
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horvath@granite.cr.bull.com (John Horvath) writes:
>One of the pictures in yesterday's paper showed a different bird. The
>caption called it a cormorant, but it seemed to be some sort of
>merganser. It had a short neck with a round head, fanning out into
>something of a crest. In the AP or UPI picture in our paper, there
>were 2 birds sitting on the beach together, covered in oil.

You're probably talking of the picture which 
shows two oiled Black-necked Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis).
The information about the species was probably spread
with the photo because the main newspaper in Finland 
(Helsingin Sanomat) made the same mistake correcting
it in today's number.


				Martin

PS. Some newspapers ('yellow press') in Finland (and probably
elsewhere too !) have written of eagles (Haliaetus albicilla)
instead of cormorants just because the species' names in Finnish
superficially resemble each other.

Martin Helin	Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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