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These blue-eyed shags were nesting on Cormorant Island, near the U.S. research base at Palmer Station off the Antarctic Peninsula. They were very little disturbed by a close approach. Note that I was doing scientific research on these birds and had a permit to handle them. This allowed me to get considerably closer to them than casual visitors should. Besides that issue, there are other reasons for not getting too close: they do not smell good, they bite (hard), and they seem to be consistently infested with ectoparasites. |
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