One more flight up to the fifth level at the National Aquarium to just a handful of large habitats. The first is home to three species of sea birds: Atlantic Puffin, Razorbill, and Black Guillemot. All three call the shores of the North Atlantic Ocean home and make those homes on cliff faces overlooking often treacherous surfs. The other three habitats are dedicated to recreating a Pacific Kelp Forest, a Pacific Reef, and the edge of the Atlantic continental shelf. Its a shame that the last habitat, home to some truly huge fish is so necessarily dark as to not be photographable by this rank amateur.
NORTH ATLANTIC CLIFFS
Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica
Right: Razorbill, Alca torda
KELP FOREST
Vermilion Rockfish, Sebastes miniatus
PACIFIC CORAL REEF
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