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ANTARCTICA SEAGULLS TIDBITS® LOOKS AT bybyJanet Janet Spencer Spencer
On November 18, 1820, an American On October 1, 1919, the Mormon churchseal of hunter named Palmer Salt Lake CityNathaniel unveiled aBrown monument to became a bird. the first American to lay eyes upon Mormon settlers were tending their mainland ripening Antarctica. He is when considered to be one of three crops in 1848 a plague of crickets descended, threatening ruin the the harvest. primary candidates to havetodiscovered frozen Fortunately,Palmer flocks proclaimed of seagulls arrived, eating all continent. the frozen terrain the crickets. The Seagull Monument, designed before him to be Palmer Land, and the Palmer by Brigham Young’s grandson, is thought to be Archipelago still carries his name. Come along the world’s only monument to a bird. The seagull with Tidbits as we visit Antarctica! is now the state bird of Utah. Come along with Tidbits as we go birdwatching! ANTARCTIC FACTS • The lowest reliably measured temperature of SEAGULL a continuously occupiedFACTS station on Earth was • −128.6°F The term “gull” refers a group of 23 North (−89.2°C) on to July 21, 1983 at Vostok American species belonging to the family Station. Laridae, which comes from the Greek word • In summer, the population meaning “ravenous sea bird.” of Antarctica averages about 5,000. In winter, it drops to • Seagulls usually mate for life, but researchers 1,000. About tourists visit eachTheir year. say they do get40,000 “divorced” sometimes. There noispermanent divorceare rate about 3 toresidents. 5% a year. • thestay only a time • Antarctica A seagull’s is feet at continent only 32°f.without while the rest zone. The scientists who reside there go by of the body’s temperature is 100°f. time theirthey home land or the • either When the gulls getof mad, yank grass up supply by the line that brings them supplies. roots to displace their aggression. • Antarctica largest desert. In • The herring isgullthe hasworld’s 63 different calls. it hasn’t rained • Antarctica’s Gulls can liveDry for upValleys, to 32 years. for more than 2 million years. The Turn the Page forground More! and climate so closely resemble the surface of Mars that NASA did testing there for the Viking mission. (cont’d next page)
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