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Cliffside Landing

Spending most of their life at sea plunge-diving for fish and squid, red-tailed tropicbirds (Phaethon rubricauda) or koa’e ‘ula return to land only to nest. Nests are simple scrapes in holes and overhangs of shoreline escarpment out of reach of most terrestrial predators.

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Uploaded on October 10, 2020
Taken on May 12, 2020