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Seabirds and waterbirds displaced by construction on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia may have a permanent home with the creation of a new island for the breeding birds.

The Pigeon Guillemot is an attractive member of the auk family, a group of marine birds that also includes the puffins, murres, and auklets.

A group of Black Skimmers in flight resembles an aerial ballet, circling, banking, and gracefully alighting as one.

Once trash makes its way from land to sea, it can travel all the way around the world before washing up on land again. The same characteristics that make it easy for plastics to travel to the ocean also make it easy for coastal and marine species to ingest them — plastics are buoyant and light.

Seabirds are marine animals, every bit as ocean-dwelling as sea turtles. They spend far more of their lives at sea than on land, coming inland only for the purpose of breeding and raising young.

American Bird Conservancy goes where the Marbled Murrelets go, partnering with state and federal agencies, conservation organizations, and researchers to conserve the species across its life cycle, on land and at sea, from forest stands to the hallways of Congress.

Los textos arqueológicos suelen mencionar "tubos óseos perforados" entre los artefactos desenterrados en cuevas y cementerios de los primeros humanos. Estos artefactos podrían contener evidencia del despertar de la mente humana a la música: indicios de que nuestros antepasados convertían el hueso y el aire en canciones y de una antigua capacidad para percibir la belleza...