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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

10,000 Birds

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here.

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