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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_b4F+MdKIrJoBgZpxjekHzA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I was watching a Black Guillemot fishing by the wharf at Sambro Harbour and it came up with what looked like a sculpin species. There are apparently about 756 species of sculpin and the numbers keep growing. Some or all have toxic spines so to see the guillemot swallow it whole and head first is interesting. The bird did not appear to kill the fish before swallowing. So if this is really a sculpin how does the guillemot protect itself from the toxic spines. Hans http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/February2010/0125.html _________________________________ Hans Toom Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada Website: http://hanstoom.com _________________________________ --Boundary_(ID_b4F+MdKIrJoBgZpxjekHzA) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18876"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I was watching a <STRONG>Black Guillemot</STRONG> fishing by the wharf at Sambro Harbour and it came up with what looked like a sculpin species. There are apparently about 756 species of sculpin and the numbers keep growing. Some or all have toxic spines so to see the guillemot swallow it whole and head first is interesting. The bird did not appear to kill the fish before swallowing. So if this is really a sculpin how does the guillemot protect itself from the toxic spines.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hans</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A href="http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/February2010/0125.html">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/February2010/0125.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>_________________________________<BR>Hans Toom<BR>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR>Website: <A href="http://hanstoom.com">http://hanstoom.com</A> <BR>_________________________________</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_b4F+MdKIrJoBgZpxjekHzA)--
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