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'U'au (pronounced oo-ah-oo), named after the calls that they make, are incredibly long fliers much like albatross. They can travel nearly 6,000 miles in two weeks before flying back to their burrows on the Hawai'ian islands to feed their chicks.
What Has Happened to the Ocean’s Plastic Trash?
By: Elizabeth Paulat
Many of us have seen the photos of plastic refuse in the ocean, the large islands of bags and waste that collect at tidal crossroads. Yet when scientists took a survey of the ocean earlier this year, they found a suspicious amount had disappeared. Was it just our good luck that pollution was decreasing? Hardly. It had simply been sinking, breaking apart and embedding itself…
The hoards are assembling once again. Black-headed gulls joining the colony at WWT Castle Espie, near Scrabo Tower.
It’s that time of year again. A pair of black-headed gulls sharing a “special hug” on the reserve at WWT Castle Espie today
Chinstrap Penguin are one of the most abundant penguins in the Antarctic, where they congregate in large breeding colonies.
Cleaners of the Sea, from the Life and Habits of Wild Animals by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrations by Joseph Wolf. 1874.