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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.
Which is partly why they were kind of called geese as well.
Because geese are well known for flying in V formation.
I've watched them off the south coast of Ireland.
I've watched them in quite a number of places because they're found across the North Atlantic.
And they really like flying in these Vs. And what's also very interesting, the way they do it,
they seem to come across what look like imaginary humps in the sea because all of a sudden the V, all of them will climb up a little bit.
And what they're doing is just getting a little bit of height and then they'll glide down towards the sea surface and on they will go again.
And of course, what they're doing there, we know it now, it's a bit like cyclists in a peloton where you tuck in behind the leader because that leading bird is going to
cut through the wind a bit more, the air, and you can kind of slipstream behind it.
They're finding out more and more now that it's even more complex than that.
It's got to do with the wing beats and whether they're in sync with them or out of sync with them.