Spring is nearly here—if you live in the Southern Hemisphere. And these black-browed albatrosses, sometimes called mollymawks, have returned to their nesting grounds in the Falkland Islands where they will reunite with their mates. Each bird pair will lay a single egg in October and nurture the hatchling from December until April, when it’s time to take off and hunt the high seas again.
Back to the nest
Today in History
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The Girl Scouts celebrate 110 years
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San Francisco Bay salt flats
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Autumn in Piedmont
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Elephant Rock, Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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Is that a face in the sand?
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Best fronds forever
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Presidents Day
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World Reef Day
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Frankenstein Friday
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Heceta Head Light, Florence, Oregon
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Inhale and exhale, it’s Yoga Day
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Tambopata National Reserve, Peru
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Here we mark the price of freedom
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Roman theater of Cartagena, Spain
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Life goes on at the Beatles Ashram
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Bringing together history and technology
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Ides of March
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A wild, craggy corner of the United States
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Honoring the first American woman in space
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Feature Attraction: 85 years at the drive-in
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Seventeen arches at sunset
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Visiting a Maratha fortress
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Traditional red fishermens cabins, Reine, Norway
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Mack Arch Rock
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Antarctica Day
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Mid-Autumn Festival
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A visit to Limerick on Limerick Day
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Christmas Bird Count
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Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia
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Azaleas blooming on Hwangmaesan Mountain, South Korea
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