Two weeks in NZ!

This year I'm doing a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship in New Zealand.
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Back from Burgess

@sketchbiologist reflects on first days in the field NZ. Albatross, shearwaters, prions, divers & stormies in view pic.twitter.com/Cy2NMWqS7m

— Chris Gaskin (@PetrelsInPeril) September 15, 2017

Boat trip back from the Mokohinau Islands (Burgess, specifically) in the amazing Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand.

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