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Merry Christmas Shearwaters!

December 21, 2011 by Duncan 2 Comments

It’s that time of year when a young man’s thoughts turn to tropical seabirds like the Christmas Shearwater… wait, that doesn’t work! In fact,...

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Laysan Albatrosses

December 7, 2011 by Duncan 5 Comments

While I often tease Corey about how many albatrosses we have down here in New Zealand, the fact is that the United States has...

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Man-o-war Birds

April 27, 2011 by Duncan 5 Comments

Last week I introduced the Great Frigatebird, one of five species of man-o-war bird. I got rather carried away showing all the plumages you...

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The Great Pirates of the Pacific

April 20, 2011 by Duncan 7 Comments

I’ve always thought there is something prehistoric about frigatebirds, as something about their shape evokes in my mind the shape I imagine the later...

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Seeking the Sacred Raven

April 3, 2007 by Mike 1 Comment

The ‘alala is a matte-black crow endemic to Hawaii’s Big Island. This noisy, social, and exceedingly clever corvid, classified by Western ornithology as the...

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