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An Open Letter to the Birds on the Webcams, Re: Nesting Season

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Steal and eat their eggs? They leave comments on your videos and give you cute names like Ozzie the Osprey and Wisdom the Albatross. Maybe poop out of camera range too – although to be fair, a lot of the elementary school classes love the toilet humor. Again, I know you’re just doing what you gotta do. We all need this.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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When Albatross alight in temporal alignment anything else is swamped out. This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful.

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