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Title: The Canadian field-naturalist
Identifier: canadianfieldnat1973otta (find matches)
Year: 1973 (1970s)
Authors: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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Publisher: Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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226 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 87
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- 46° 62 = 60° 58° Figure 1. Predicted drifts of Slicks A, B, and C. Dates indicate predicted position at 0001 hours GMT on the day in question. 1; the drift model suggests that, hke Slick A, it too moved south and then east (Figure 1). Oil and oiled birds were reported about 100 miles west of Sable Island on March 11, and more oiled birds came ashore on the island on March 13. The timing in both cases is close to the pre- dicted drift of Slick B. A fresh leak from the "Arrow' on March 25 also moved out to sea (Slick C). A report of oiled birds from Scatari Island in early April may refer to this slick — otherwise, its move- ments are unknown. The drift model suggests that it remained off eastern Cape Breton until about April 6, and then drifted off southeast (Figure 1). The "Irving Whale" apparently started to spill oil, from a leaking plug, somewhere west of St. Pierre during a gale on or about February 14. Thick oil and oiled birds were soon reported all along the southwest tip of the Burin Peninsula. Northeast winds blew the oil off- shore, apparently onto the southeast coast of Miquelon, where oil was reported on February 21. A thinner oil slick and lightly oiled birds were reported from St. Shotts, on the Avalon Peninsula, on March 1, and the shck moved

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