are getting a second chance to repopulate their old territories in , with the help of biologists and volunteers. Each summer a fearless group of workers returns to the islands that are their breeding grounds in order to protect these from predators. The once common were hunted by humans for their meat and feathers and were nearly extinct in their US habitat by 1901. So, early in the 1970s, and intrepid biologist, Stephen Kress started a program to bring them back to their former American territories. Read on for a little inspiration, and hope that even if humans did throw things out of balance, perhaps nature will be able to return it between the and their predators, the black gull.

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