When they returned home, their droppings end up all around their nesting sites, including in nearby ponds.

Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north at the Arctic circle.

And instead of showing just the typical pair of eggs in a hummingbird nest, she painted four.

So far this year, water levels have been too high for the flamingos to nest.

Three-quarters of the world's flamingos fly over from other salt lakes in the Rift Valley and nest on salt-crystal islands that appear when the water is at a specific level一too high and the birds can't build their nests, too low and predators can move bri