The incident sparked the interest of local resident Alfred Hitchcock, along with a story about spooky bird behavior by British writer Daphne du Maurier, helping to inspire Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds, a cautionary tale of nature revolting against man.
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Author Brian Garfield surmises, based on analysis by modern Aleutian fishing-boat captains, that the pips were rafts of Sooty or Short-tailed Shearwaters, species of migratory petrel that pass through the Aleutians in July every year.
Birds recorded as breeding on Jacquemart include the Sooty Shearwater, Northern Giant Petrel, Grey-backed Storm-petrel, Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, Brown Skua and Campbell Shag.