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Photo by Kevin Schafer – @schaferpho @ナショナルジオグラフィック One of the most staggering gatherings of wildlife I have ever encountered was as unexpected as it was astonishing. I was in Peru working on assignment for @ナショナルジオグラフィック, searching for the endangered Marine Otter, found only on the coasts of southern Peru and Chile. I was not finding any otters this day, but could hardly ignore the large flocks of seabirds passing by just offshore. I worked my way out to the end of a rocky point and suddenly found myself in the middle of a chaotic, deafening cloud of thousands of birds: pelicans, boobies, gulls, and terns. Clearly they had discovered a shoal of sardines, or other bait fish, near the surface, and were suddenly in a feeding frenzy, plunging into the water and grabbing whatever they could. As the bait ball moved, so did the teeming mass of birds, for a few minutes surrounding me, and then slowly moving offshore. In ten minutes it was over, a classic narrative in the wild, where, in the search for one thing, you can stumble onto something entirely unexpected, and breathtaking. I wonder if the fisherman was catching anything… Afterwards, I expressed my astonishment at the numbers of birds to some Peruvian colleagues. “Oh, this was nothing,” I was told. "Twenty years ago there would have been ten times as many birds here." The cold waters of the Humboldt Current are among the richest on earth, but heavy commercial fishing has hammered the fish stocks, and drastically reduced the numbers of birds. Frankly, that’s difficult to imagine: what I saw that day was like nothing I had ever seen before. #humboldtcurrent #incaterns #feedingfrenzy #wildgatherings #pucusana

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