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... penguin rookery were seals , herds of them , everywhere . ' We decided that the only way to count them was for one of us to count adults , distinguishing between wigs and clapmatches , and the other pups , for it quickly became apparent ...
... penguin rookery were seals , herds of them , everywhere . ' We decided that the only way to count them was for one of us to count adults , distinguishing between wigs and clapmatches , and the other pups , for it quickly became apparent ...
Page 183
... . There was a big penguin rookery on the tussock - covered coast on our right , but the way to it was guarded by seals , past which the penguins had to go in order to reach home . Now fur - seals rarely BIRDS OF LAND AND SEA 183.
... . There was a big penguin rookery on the tussock - covered coast on our right , but the way to it was guarded by seals , past which the penguins had to go in order to reach home . Now fur - seals rarely BIRDS OF LAND AND SEA 183.
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... rookery is full of dust and debris . Finally , however , the clean , new white breast feathers , and glossy blue ... penguin rookery ; there was an- other on the streamside flats below the rookery , another less than a quarter - mile ...
... rookery is full of dust and debris . Finally , however , the clean , new white breast feathers , and glossy blue ... penguin rookery ; there was an- other on the streamside flats below the rookery , another less than a quarter - mile ...
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Archway Rock arrived Arthur ashore Atlantic Petrel Base birds boat boulders breeding Broad-billed Prions bunting Cape Town cave chicks cliffs climbed clouds coast colour dark dinghy east elephants Expedition feet ferns fishing Frances Repetto fur-seals Glen Gough Island grass green grey Gulch Hag's Tooth head High Camp hundred James John Heaney John Lavarello land longboat looked male Michael miles Mount Rowett mountain nest Nigel night Nightingale Island pair party patches Peak peat penguin rookery Petrel Philip plants plateau Point pups rail rain ridge Robert Robert Chambers Rockhopper Penguin Roger rookery round sea-elephant sea-hens seals Settlement ship shore side skuas slopes Soft-plumaged Petrels Soggy Plain soon South species stream survey tent theodolite things took tree tree-ferns Tristan da Cunha Tristan Islanders Tristania tussock tussock grass valley Wandering Albatross watch whole wigs wind young