With a wing span of nearly two metres, they can glide for hours over the waves then suddenly plunge from a great height, straight down, propelled deep underwater by powerful webbed feet in pursuit of caplin, herring and squid. In early June, they lay a single large white egg in a nest of dried seaweed clinging to a high ledge on the nearly vertical walls of sea stacks, or the mainland cliffs. Chicks hatch in July when the caplin is most abundant and by September they are all on their way to Florida.
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