Whangeri, New Zealand - 12 May 2012. New Zealand is surrounded by sea, and has a LOT of coastline. So you can see noisy, aggressive seagulls - and the

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Whangeri, New Zealand - 12 May 2012. New Zealand is surrounded by sea, and has a LOT of coastline. So you can see noisy, aggressive seagulls - and their major metabolic end-product - just about black-backed variety was seen in Whangere, North Island

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