Birders say this is the first time, on verified record, that storm petrels have been
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The birds spend most of their lives on the ocean but got caught in Tropical Storm Rachel this week. The storm brought 1.25 inches of rain to the Salt Lake City airport, 2.47 to the University of Utah campus, and to the south, 1.43 to Saratoga Springs on the shores of Utah Lake. That’s good for the drought. But Rachel’s winds also carried different kinds of storm petrels hundreds of miles to the landlocked Beehive State…