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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian. The birds are so busy, finding sticks, flying with sticks, fixing nests, tending to eggs in nests, preening feathers, touching bills, feeding chicks, refusing to feed chicks.

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Comebackers

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Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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High tide birding in June

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The rocks that were surrounded by the sea at high tide were great roosts for Australian Pelicans, Silver Gulls and Caspian Terns. Australian Pelican, Silver Gulls and Caspian Tern. Australian Pelicans, Silver Gulls and Black-winged Stilt in flight. Australian Pelicans, Silver Gulls and Black-winged Stilt in flight.

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