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an illustration of a black skimmer
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Black Skimmer

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an illustration of a roseate spoonbill
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Roseate Spoonbill

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A green iridescent hummingbird
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Mangrove Hummingbird

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A gentoo penguin tongue with keratin bristles
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Penguin Tongue

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If this chick had survived, it could have lived a long time: Laysan albatrosses are very long-lived birds. The oldest known wild bird is a 62-year old Laysan albatross named “Wisdom,” who still rears chicks on Midway Atoll.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 9

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Brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) nest in a mangrove in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.
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Pelican Nest in Mangroves

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an illustration of two surf ducks
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Surf Duck

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an illustration of a white pelican
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American White Pelican

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Snow petrels hunt in Antarctic sea ice, feeding on krill and fish.
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Snow Petrel

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Midway Atoll, where these photos were taken, is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest land.These photos portray baby albatrosses, which are fed the plastic by their parents. A chick can have an ounce of plastic in its belly and remain healthy; the dead ch
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 2

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Puffin in Flight, Pribilof Islands Alaska
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Puffin in Flight

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After leaving Australia, Dampier and his men reached the western coast of New Guinea on New Year’s Day 1700. There Dampier observed birds that he had never seen before, like the “stately land-fowl” shown here.
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New Guinea Birds

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