Jim Wilson
speaker
359 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2013
last heard 25 Jun
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I think the term is philopatric, which means they are drawn back to where they were born.
And so when you're an adult then, you don't roam very far from your breeding colony.
And that's exactly what happens as they grow up.
Wander a lot when you're young, a bit like ourselves, and then settle down and don't travel so far.
When they go into the water like that, the speed at which they enter and the gravity sends them down so far, but then they're able to use their big webbed feet and kind of use their wings to go down even further in pursuit of their prey.
It is quite incredible.
And when they pop back up to the surface, it's really like a cork coming up or a beach ball coming up from underwater.
They come up with a big pop.
And then they kind of struggle sometimes to take off.
They need a long runway before they can get back into the air.
But later on this morning, we're going to see them with bits of seaweed.
They're building up their nests.
They're doing all that sort of thing.
And unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of those nests full of old fishing nets, greens, yellows and blues.
They're picking them up, thinking they're seaweed, and they're using them to make their nests.
And it's not great because a lot of them get caught in those
little bits of net that have been floating around in the sea, and they die.
Very normal, Terry.
Good question.
Yeah, very normal.
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