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Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

There was no pretending this was a whale-watching trip, a ruse that is growing stale anyway. As we made our way around the island in a clockwise direction we continually saw large numbers of Rhinoceros Auklets , which are so clumsy on land that they must wait for the cover of darkness to get back to their burrows to feed their young.