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Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, 18 February 2023

Caleb Crain
Feb 19, 2023
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Two male red-breasted mergansers, as dapper as late-Victorian dandies, swim in parallel
Red-breasted mergansers (male)
Two male red-breasted mergansers, heads poking forward, wings churning, launch into flight
A photograph of a tranche of ocean water, slate blue with finicky, angular ripples
A razorbill—a penguin-like bird with a black back, a white belly, and a white stripe across its lores—sits on the water
Razorbill
A razorbill rears up in the water, stretching its wings and exposing its belly
A photograph of ocean water, greenish, crossed by soft, tessellated ripples
A pair of buffleheads, the male iridescent and the female more demure, swim past the camera while eyeing it warily
Buffleheads (male and female)

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