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Aerial photographs of rookeries are particularly useful in fur seal research because they show the distribution of animals much more visibly and accurately than ground-level photos.
In order to standardize specific locations within a particular rookery, each rookery is divided into sections. Some rookeries are small enough to be only a single section, whereas the largest rookery
(Vostochni rookery on St. Paul Island) has 14 sections.