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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

10,000 Birds

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. Birds were everywhere, soaring through the air, walking on the beach, and landing in the low level of vegetation.

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