Help with Shearwater ID

["Mike Carter" <>]

Well Ted, you have me totally stumped. Description including bluish feet AND 
white to eye but not above fits some 'Little Shearwaters'. Only thing that 
doesn't fit is size. It is way too big! How did you measure it; with a rule, 
callipers? Perhaps you wrote the figures down wrongly. Those dimensions make 
it a big bird, larger than Fluttering Shearwater, almost the size of a Manx. 
So the wingspan was just short of a metre! Thinking about it now was it 
really that big? If so, then you have no choice. You must go back and 
collect it! When we last met at Adele Island that would have been no problem 
for you. You were fittest man in our group. Then you would have swam or ran 
back to collect it without a second thought!
Mike Carter
30 Canadian Bay Road
Mount Eliza  VIC 3930
Tel  (03) 9787 7136