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Wonderful Wedgies

10,000 Birds

But it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, from Aldabra near Madagascar to Western Australia. They are described as usually nocturnal in Brooke’s Albatrosses and Petrels of the World , but on Tern Island they can easily be seen lounging the day away on the surface. Here a bunch of them are investigating one such burrow.

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