The Birds of St George

7月 15, 2010 · Posted in 未分類 

We sat on the edge of a high cliff on the island of St. George facing north to watch the return of the least auklets that live in a great colony among the boulders. These little seafowls, called by the native Aleuts “choochkies” (pronounced chewtskie), are plump in body, but not much larger than an English sparrow. You see them sitting on the rocks of the boulder beaches, bowing and chattering. Having their legs at the end of their bodies, they prop themselves upright on their little webbed feet and walk around like little old men. During the day they feed off at sea, and now we were watching the flocks returning home.

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