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Birding the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland

10,000 Birds

The inscrutable species frustrated me and I found myself especially stumped by the difficulty I had distinguishing them, and wildly mystified by the excitement they inspired in my fellow-birders. Sea otters put on a playful dance show for us, and proceeded to laze about on the rocks, which we interpreted as posing for the camera.

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Seabirding off Cape Point

10,000 Birds

It was a Benguela Nino year, and pelagic seabirds were in super-abundance in the south eastern Atlantic, with the total of species by variety and number exceeding all expectations for the birders on the inaugural trip as we pitched and wallowed about in the rolling swells on our way out to the trawling grounds.

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