Hi,
I have two photos of Mark and his hand drawings of two different yellow-nosed albatrosses he encountered (1960, 1964) while fishing his one-man dragger in waters southeast of Monhegan Island. Mark knew seabirds intimately. It was his chosen domain out there. One of those albatrosses landed near his boat as he was hauling back the net. Mark threw chunks of fish to the waiting bird, and made note of its vocalizations and behavior: "call note nasal - similar to Greater Shear." "Seemed to be shy of Great Black-backed Gulls." Mark Libby never boasted of his birding prowess. He didn't need to.
Don
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