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n. - Genus of birds; the storm petrels.

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  • Penguin-researchers working for the Washington, D. C.-based environmental group Oceanites, who camp on Peterman Island each summer, showed us how whole colonies have...
  • In December, WTAE Channel 4 Action News Anchor Sally Wiggin traveled to the Antarctic Peninsula with the nonprofit group Oceanites to discover how tourists and climate...
  • Carlson and University of Marlyand ecology Ph. D. student Elise Larsen spent two weeks aboard a Lindblad Expeditions cruise ship, the National Geographic Explorer, as...
  • Wilson’s storm petrel (Oceanites oceanicus); blue-eyed shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps);
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