Eggs Experiments Humane Pelicans 
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. Surprisingly, the Avocet area was not fenced off. I imagined walking right up to them. It was amazing.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
The island contains 80,000 breeding Sooty Terns, in addition to 4,500 breeding Brown Noddies and another 100 breeding pairs of the huge Magnificent Frigatebirds, not to mention pelicans, herons, Black Skimmers , other tern species, and so much more. Sooty Terns are incredibly birds. Each took merely a minute or two.
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