Small big world

Burrowing bird

A grey-faced petrel contemplates the world from the entrance to its nest burrow

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Burgess Island, New Zealand

The Chasm of Doom

Crossing the Chasm of Doom: must reach the storm petrel colony before nightfall (when thousands of White-faced Storm Petrels will whirl in, fluttering and squeaking, for a night of courtship on the cliffs)

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On Burgess Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf.

Cliff nesting

Best birthday, hands down

Photo taken by Edin from the Mokohinau Islands Lighthouse, just above the field station on the top of this very hilly island.