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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pbjosh" data-source="post: 3610813" data-attributes="member: 117939">However, as shown in the above video, Sooties don't appear very tightly grouped like Katie's photo shows. The video shows birds streaming by non stop. In smaller concentrations they fly in a strung out, dispersed manner. When they are rafting on the surface or feeding in a frenzy they aren't all moving in one direction. When they are flushing they still are more strung out / not tightly grouped like Katie's photo.I realize I might seem obstinate but I've seen Sooties all over the world and have never seen them move like that.I challenge anyone here suggesting these are Shearwaters to produce a photo of a comparable group of Shearwaters of any species moving in a similarly tight flock. Not sitting on the water, not dispersed, not swirling around bait, but flying in one direction in tight formation with no stragglers. On the flip side, look at photos of flocks of waders in flight, which very typically look like Katie's photo.</blockquote>