Far out in the Pacific Ocean, nearly a million Layson Albatrosses have set up their nesting colonies on Midway Atoll.
Emerging Science Note: Winds of Change
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Great Gull Island
BirdNote ® Sooty Shearwater Migration
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.
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.
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.
