Todd Pusser / Breaching Cuvier's beaked whale {Ziphius cavirostris} Atlantic, USA

Todd Pusser / Corys shearwater {Calonectris diomedea} taking off from sea surface, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA

Todd Pusser / Cuvier's beaked whale back profile {Ziphius cavirostris}, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Todd Pusser / Adult male Cuvier's beaked whale {Ziphius cavirostris}, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) flock flying over Atlantic Ocean, near Hatteras Island, North Carolina

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) flying over Atlantic Ocean, near Hatteras Island, North Carolina

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) flock flying over Atlantic Ocean, near Hatteras Island, North Carolina

Gary Braasch / Beachside house abandoned to the surf and increasingly rapid beach erosion, Nags Head, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA. October, 2004.