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Like spectators in a sports arena, Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia) and Black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)
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Voyage through the Aleutians - Part 2
Like spectators in a sports arena, Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia) and Black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)
crowded the steeper cliffs on Chagulak, while millions of Northern Fulmars
occupied the upper, grassier parts of the volcanic cone. Photograph copyright
of Angus Wilson©.
Chagulak is a quite incredible place.
As we approached within ten to twenty miles of the island, we noticed a
steady increase in the numbers of
Northern Fulmars
, and once we
were within a few miles of the rock, the sea was literally covered with
a dense blanket of chocolate-brown fulmars. The island itself appeared
to be shrouded in dark clouds or perhaps steam rising from an active volcanic
cone but we soon realized that these clouds were in fact immense swirling
masses of fulmars! There must literally have been several million birds.
We boarded Zodiacs and motored around the base. Again the sky was dark
with the swirling mass of birds above us. The more vertical cliffs were
covered in dense legions of
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