Sleepsketching

Sometimes I even sketch in my sleep. (Photo: Chris Gaskin) Waiting for the sun to set and the petrels to fly in for the night.

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I may have peeked.

View from the cliffs at sunset, waiting for darkness and incoming petrels

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

More extreme seabirding

Abby’s-eye view, climbing the cliffs at Tawharanui en route to some seabird burrows

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

Seal snooze

This seal snoozed here on Goat Island all day long

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

National Geographic debut

Meet the white-faced storm petrel, on a far-away island off the coast of New Zealand: story here.

My first #seabirdstory for National Geographic: How to Seabird in the Dark. See link in bio (https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2017/10/09/how-to-seabird-in-the-dark/) #fulbright #newzealand

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My first #seabirdstory for National Geographic (with sketches, of course!) https://t.co/NmSWlU7oQq #fulbright #seabirds pic.twitter.com/Tmdys46yYK

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) October 9, 2017

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

Sniffing out seabirds

More photos from two days of seabird-sniffing with Rua the wonder dog...

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