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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The next five chapters focus more specifically on Galápagos creatures: huge tortoises; iguanas; birds (two chapters–one on seabirds and coastal birds, another on land birds, including the famous finches); water creatures–sea lions, crabs, fish, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

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California’s Autumn Seas

10,000 Birds

The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. Under the surface we could sea Oceanic Sunfish and Blue Sharks. California Sea Lions porpoised through the clear water. And there where whales.

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