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.

First sketch of NZ

Testing out new sketching gear, at the mudflats in the Tamaki River

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I rigged up a Rite-in-the-Rain sketchbook for this trip. I think it will come in handy.

Beach walker

Ring-billed Gull stalking the beach

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Definitely still in Maine

Lobster boat seen from Jonesport

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Endangered Not-a-Seagull

World's most endangered gull, found only in New Zealand (Black-billed Gull)

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This endangered black-billed gull debuted in my 2012 graduate thesis, titled “Don't Call It a Seagull," but is now a fitting ambassador for my next project on New Zealand seabird conservation.