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ALT Picture of a page from the fall 2022 Audubon Magazine that has a photo of two women focused on a small white bird that is receiving a metal band. The text in focus says: Down Tern. A small black-capped seabird with a striking eye stripe and sooty feathers, the Aleutian Tern is one of Alaska's lesser-known species. It might also be one of the nation's most imperiled. Recent research suggests that the bird's US population has crashed by as much as 80 percent in the past few decades. Now, a group of biologists has launched an ambitious plan to count every Aleutian Tern in the state in a race to assess how dire the situation is--and whether the bird should be considered endangered. Read more about their efforts at audubon.org/aleutiantern.
ALT Photo by Derrick Z. Jackson of a large colony of Atlantic puffins standing on a rocky ledge. Dozens of little white-chested, black-backed birds with deep orange feet and large orange, yellow, and grayish blue beaks can be seen across the image, including one in the foreground spreading its wings as it stares at the camera.
ALT Photograph of Derrick Z. Jackson – a older Black man with a white goatee – taken from below as he looks through binoculars, overcast blue sky behind him.
ALT A selfie of Adé, a young black man wearing a mask and two hats, featuring a common tern sitting on his head.
ALT A photo of Adé holding a black guillemot chick, a tennis ball-sized floof of grayish-black feathers.
