Extreme seabirding

Seabird conservation is an extreme sport

A post shared by Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) on Oct 3, 2017 at 6:23pm PDT

I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

Pests-be-gone

Maria Island, site of the world’s first island-wide eradication of invasive rodents (in the 1960s). We couldn’t land the boat on the rocks, so I swam over to take a look. Those hills are covered with seabird burrows!

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

The neighborhood volcano

Evening walk up the neighborhood volcano

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

Noisy Island Voyage

En route to the amazing Noises Islands!

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

“Wh” is pronounced “f”

@oscarkokako looks pretty happy to be meeting a Grey-faced Petrel chick at Tawharanui with @friesenmegan. (Soon after, the sun went down and a big storm sprang up – just in time for catching adult petrels as they flew in from the ocean for the night.) This species nests only in the north of New Zealand – nowhere else in the world.

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.