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Posted on: Friday, May 28, 2004

Encounter with Tern Island's talkative residents

By Jan TenBruggencate
Advertiser Science Writer

On Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, one of the many things that impresses you is the noise.

At peak season, there are 250,000 breeding pairs of sooty terns. They're just one of more than a dozen species, and they all seem to have something to say.



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