Badge of honor

How very exciting to be based out of @AucklandMuseum this year for my #fulbright #natgeo #seabirdstory fellowship

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Kiwiland

Look! Look! Guess what it is! (Tawharanui, NZ) pic.twitter.com/86N7WrYmNu

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) September 19, 2017

Yes, that is indeed the hind end of a North Island brown kiwi.

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.