Cecil, that sounds pretty typical for an island nesting ground for a water bird.

Folks bemoan the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, quoting old accounts of how the huge flocks would "turn the sky dark." What they fail to note is that the same flocks would also turn the ground white.


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