Sooty shearwaters, Falkland Islands (IMAGE)

University of Maine

Sooty shearwaters, Falkland Islands

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At dusk, thousands of seabirds called sooty shearwaters (Ardenna grisea) return to their deep nesting burrows dug into the peat of the tussac grassland at the Kidney Island National Nature Reserve, Falkland Islands.

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Photo by Dulcinea Groff

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