Tag Archives: Seabirds

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As a seabird researcher, Leo Uesaka spends most of his time reviewing hours of bird footage. That can get quite tedious and demanding at times, but every second is worth paying attention to—after all, that’s how you notice things like the penchant for seabirds to poop only while airborne. In a first-of-its-kind study published today in Current Biology, Uesaka and …

A red-footed booby hones in on a flying fish. Scientists attached minuscule cameras to two red-footed boobies, which recorded footage of the seabirds hunting a shoal of flying fish in the Indian Ocean. The birds live on a remote archipelago and were following the fish that can make powerful leaps out of the water. The camera caught the boobies plucking …