What fuels birders' fifty or more years of steadily growing interest in "Seabirds"? We think it is partly the desire to have a direct experience with wilderness and Nature, including the spectacular wild places where many seabirds breed, such as the Antarctic location in the following photo (click on this photo to enlarge it, and hit Esc key to return), or in other remote oceanic islands (such as Gough Island, shown in a photograph far below).... plus the mystery of the vast deep oceans, where we understand so much less than we do on land, and the respect we have for any seabird which can live through several wild ocean storms every year...
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| Black-browed albatross colony (Thalassarche melanophrys) at Colony Q1 on Bird Island. Black-browed albatrosses feed on Krill, fish and squid and tend to forage around the edge of the continental shelf of South Georgia. From the British Antarctic Survey... http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/images/in_pictures/albatross.php |
And we all hope that our love of seabirds and Nature will rub-off on everyone and especially children.
