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Post Article on Albatross--AKA Great Black-Backed Gull

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John Sherwood

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John Sherwood

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Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:59:19 -0800

The Post needs some avian education. First, it misidentified a Red Bellied Woodpecker as a "Yellow Bellied Woodpecker" in its recent birding video:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2006/03/03/VI2006030300797.html
  and now this:  Doesn't the Post have any birdheads on its staff? We're all entitled to make some mistakes but this is getting absurd.   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/11/AR2006031101203.html  ANIMAL WATCH  Hooked Albatross Rescued From River Piling  Sunday, March 12, 2006; Page C02       ALEXANDRIA, Union Street South, 700 block, March 1. Animal control was asked to pick up an albatross that had a leg stuck in a piling near a dock on the Potomac River. With the help of the Alexandria Fire Department, animal control took a boat to the piling and caught the bird, which had a fishhook stuck in its leg. The albatross was taken to an animal hospital for treatment, then transferred to a wildlife rehabilitator.