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Nest Cam Welcomes Arctic Tern Babies to the World

10,000 Birds

Clocking more than 50,000 miles per year, the birds appear to have cornered the market on the world’s longest annual migration. Perhaps because of threats to the ecosystems of the many places the Arctic Tern visits (Europe, Africa, South America, and North America), it may be on the decline.

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All about alcids: Extravagant divers of northern oceans

10,000 Birds

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and breeding, often in large colonies, on coastlines and islands. Birds alcids taxonomy and systematics' See Cairns et al.

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

Sophie had serious doubts about whether she was really a bird. August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Sophie the Scissortail was the most difficult but the most satisfying bird of the season.”.