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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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