Gavia pacifica
date: label: Collection Date
content: 28 Oct 2007
name: label: Collector
content: Sara Paroulek
notes: label: Notes
content: "This bird came to the feather lab from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, Madison Wisconsin. They recived it from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. This specimen was found dead on the beach with others. "A commercial purse seine fishery opened at this location offshore the evening preceding the mortality event. Birds were found the following day at high tide. For more than a decade similar mortality events hve followed the initial opening of the commercial fishery. It has been tupical to get over 100 dead birds, many of which have been loons and murres. We have had necropsies done in the past that point towards drowning. Gill net fishing is also practiced in the area."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Indianola Beach, Kitsap, Washington, United States, North America
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Birds
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Gavia pacifica
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2046232
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : F L 184
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : SP-01
label: USNM Number
content: 623450
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Gaviiformes, Gaviidae
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Whole Bird
content: 2440 g
label: Preparation
content: Feather(s)
label: Preparation
content: Skeleton: Whole
label: Preparation
content: Skin: Partial
label: Sex
content: Female