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PHOTO OF THE DAY April 20, 2004  

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Where Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii
When 1997
Photographer William R. Curtsinger

“First flight is the last flight for one out of ten fledgling [albatrosses]. The unfortunate novice fliers are often the scrawniest ones or those that try to ride whispers of wind too weak to carry them over the danger zone.”

—From “Tigers: In for the Kill,” November 1999, National Geographic magazine

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