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

在北极圈以北的德文岛上大约有一万对鸟在那里筑巢，它们被称为管鼻鹱，是一种北极海鸟。

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Japan points to 19th century use on the island to collect seabird feathers and guano.

而日本则指出，在19世纪，它们曾在这座小岛上采集过海鸟的羽毛和粪便。

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The world's most important seabird colony – Gough Island in the South Atlantic – is now being threatened by an unlikely predator: the common house mouse.

界上最重要的海鸟繁殖地――南大西洋戈夫岛――现在正在受一种不像是掠食者的生物所威胁：常见的家鼠。

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Two brothers have been found guilty of disturbing of a colony of Britain's rarest breeding seabird on Coquet Island off the Northumberland coast.

BBC: Brothers guilty of disturbing rare Roseate Terns