Hokitika, New Zealand - 19 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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Hokitika, New Zealand - 19 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 three black-backed gulls were seen perching on the wreck of a fishing skiff on Hokitika beach, New Zealand

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