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Tourists: Use Your Photos To Help Galapagos Penguins

KUOW | By Matt Martin
Published March 15, 2016 at 3:57 PM AKDT
Juvenile penguin on Genovesa Island. Click on this image to see more penguin photos.
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Juvenile penguin on Genovesa Island. Click on this image to see more penguin photos.
Patricio Maldonado/Courtesy of iGalapagos.org
Galapagos penguin chick in a built nest.
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Galapagos penguin chick in a built nest.
Dee Boersma/Courtesy of iGalapagos.org
Dee Boersma snorkeling with penguin.
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Dee Boersma snorkeling with penguin.
Dee Boersma/Courtesy of iGalapagos.org
Galapagos penguin.
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Galapagos penguin.
Dee Boersma/Courtesy of iGalapagos.org
A penguin eats a Galapagos snake eel.
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A penguin eats a Galapagos snake eel.
Dee Boersma/Courtesy of iGalapagos.org
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Dee Boersma/Courtesy of iGalapagos.org
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Dee Boersma/Courtesy of iGalapagos.org

Bill Radke speaks with University of Washington researcher Dee Boersma about her website iGalapagos, where she is asking Galapagos Islands tourists to share their photos of penguins to help with her research. 

This segment originally aired Jan. 26, 2016.
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