" Sometimes looking at the fulmar’s gaping, mouth-opening, mutually frenzied, head-bobbing, nibbling, shout-laughing version of ‘I love you/I hate you’, which can begin calmly enough but then builds to a tumultuous, guffawing, totalizing climax, I have thought that only in the ecstatic moments of life can we come near to knowing the reality of a bird’s mind. "

― Adam Nicolson , The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers