Here’s a pair of chunge’ at Påkpak Beach. Look at these beauties. Tremendous gliders, chunge’ use thermal updrafts to fly as far away as 120 miles. That’s why seafarers kept an eye out for them during voyages—their flight direction right before sunset indicated where land was.pic.twitter.com/psED7rMniB
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Replying to @ChamorroTweets
Those are fairy terns, or white terns! And the way they nest was always crazy to me. They lay eggs on a bare branch. Not a nest. ON A BRANCH. Very common among the ironwood trees on beach road.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @ChamorroTweets
whoa no way! I made a short film on a bird called the marbled murrelet that’s does that exact thing here in Oregon/the PNW. I was so baffled by that strategy that I figured they were one of the only birds to do something like that but I stand corrected
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Replying to @_danideru_ @ChamorroTweets
I was like Man I wouldn't wanna come back into this world as a fairy tern chick
on a bare branch
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