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CALL OF THE WILD

millions of birds return to breeding colonies on a remote island roughly 1,300 miles from the southernmost tip of Argentina. King penguins, gray-headed albatrosses, speckled teals, and endemic South Georgia pipits—the Antarctic’s only songbirds—are among the 30 species that call

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