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Dodging Dive-Bombers on an Island in Maine [slideshow]

Two interns per year get to visit Appledore Island in Maine for a summer of sunrises, monitoring Herring Gull chicks, dodging protective gull parents, and learning every inch of an island you can walk across in 20 minutes. We’ve always wondered what it’s like—so we asked Cornell undergraduate Shailee Shah, who spent the 2012 field [...]