Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix Ithaca, Tompkins Co., NY, 17 December 2001.

Here are 5 video clips of the murrelet diving.

1 - Sitting on the surface and diving (the original mpeg posted) (1135K).

2 - Diving sequence as viewed from front (stills from this shot are on the main page) (241K).

3 - Diving viewed from side (272K).

4 - Bird does a wing-flick before diving (502K).

5 - Side view of dive, zoomed in (stills from this shot are on the main page) (248K).

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