Seabirds

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BirdNote®

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, nearly a million Layson Albatrosses have set up their nesting colonies on Midway Atoll.

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Emerging Science Note: Winds of Change

Listener Letters

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Great Gull Island

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BirdNote ® Sooty Shearwater Migration

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Tern, Tern, Tern

A tern, on the hunt for food, is a determined seabird. And a mother tern is even more determined when her mission is to feed  ?and protect – her young. Mark Seth Lender offers his observations.

Earth Ear

To everything there is a season  ? this week it’s terns, terns, terns.

Threatened Albatross

The world’s sea bird populations, including the iconic albatross, are threatened by some fishing techniques.

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Emerging Science Note/From the Belly of a Penguin

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on how penguins can store food for weeks in their stomachs without it spoiling.

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Building homes for South African penguins

Environment

Terry Fitzpatrick reports from Cape Town on an effort to save threatened South African penguins. One conservation group is building special nesting igloos so more of the penguins will make it to adulthood.