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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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Bonus photos: One to annoy those people who do not like human items in bird photos … … and one showing an embarrassing moment for an eagle, crashing into the ice. The post A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido first appeared on 10,000 Birds.

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Record Year for Sick Seals in San Pedro,CA

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Each one of the sleek, whiskered sea lions recovering at the Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro has its own story. Some of the damage was caused by humans who shot, clubbed or threw so-called seal bombs at the mammals. The explosives are tossed into the water to scare away seals from fishing areas.

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California’s Autumn Seas

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The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. The seas often seemed far calmer, and full of life in early September. The seas were glass still, and far out we could see whales, dozens of the things. Under the surface we could sea Oceanic Sunfish and Blue Sharks.

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