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Brown Noddies: Brave Little Terns

February 17, 2016 by Duncan 1 Comment
The noddies form their own little subgroup within the terns, a small tropical group (how related they are to each other I am unsure)...
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The Terns of Tern Island

December 9, 2015 by Duncan 3 Comments
I’ve spoken before about the time I was lucky enough to work on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals. Part of the Hawaiian Islands...
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Sooty Terns are Very Loud

November 26, 2014 by Duncan 1 Comment
I’m not quite sure why I started thinking about Sooty Terns today, but once I did couldn’t get them out of my mind so...
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Black-footed Albatrosses Rock!

October 2, 2013 by Duncan 5 Comments
One of the nice things about living in New Zealand and being the beat writer for that place is that I can pretty much...
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The Petrels of French Frigate Shoals

November 7, 2012 by Duncan 3 Comments
I seem to having my own mini petrel-event here on the blog recently, I think it must be anticipation of seeing some in a...
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Grey-backed Terns

November 16, 2011 by Duncan 2 Comments
Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...
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Survival of the Flexible

October 19, 2011 by Duncan No Comments
It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example...
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Wonderful Wedgies

September 21, 2011 by Duncan 5 Comments
No, not the terror of the schoolyard, but the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus. The species ranges widely across the Pacific, as its scientific name...
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