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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World Art Day
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Batten down the hatches
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Aura River in Turku, Finland
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Icelandic horses, Iceland
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South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida
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National Mushroom Month
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2024 Toronto International Film Festival
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Corfe gets creepy
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Darwin Day
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Plate ice along Lake Superior, Grand Marais, Minnesota
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New Year s Day
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Maldives
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Cherry blossoms at the National Mall, Washington, DC
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Travel Sunday: On the Ganges in Varanasi, India
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Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan
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Notes from an underground lake
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Fall color sweeps across the West
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Life in the slow lane
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Methoni Castle, Messenia, Greece
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Up on the glacier
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Vote!
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The Unfinished Obelisk near Aswan, Egypt
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All hail the king of shrubs
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Once upon a time there was a bridge…
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Storm rolls over the grasslands
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Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
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First day of National Park Week
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Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Washington
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Unearthing a queen s lost tale
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Mandarin duck, Richmond Park, London, England
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