NOTES: A SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSS RECORD FOR WASHINGTON STATE

Abstract

On 3 May 1970, at a point about 38 miles west of Westport, Washington, a Short-tailed Albatross Diomedea albatrus in sub-adult plumage was photographed at a “feed” of pelagic birds chummed in to a boat. The bird was not actually recognized as anything unusual by the birders present at the time, but was identified from a slide by Dr. George E. Watson of the Smithsonian Institution.