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Château de Colombe: Bordeaux Rosé (2017)

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Whether their authors are scrutinizing this pink wine’s recent rise as a millennial obsession in clickbait lifestyle pieces, lamenting its fate as the perennial victim of wine snob invective, or endeavoring to discredit the many myths that surround this underappreciated style, come June, it’s rosés, rosés, all the way.

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Exploring the relationship between flamingos and grebes: The wonderful birds

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There is potential behavioral evidence for a relationship too, despite the birds’ very different lifestyles and nesting activities. In 2012 came an exciting new discovery: a fossilized nest. Furthermore, a study of bird lice found that the lice that live on flamingos and grebes are closely related ( Johnson et al.

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Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?

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Snowy Owl , Breezy Point, New York, 2012 © Corey Finger. Genetic studies, however, indicate that it is closely related to Bubo (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990) and in fact is nested within the genus (Wink and Heidrich 1999). Banks et al. 2003 , PDF). And that’s a marvelous gift. Birds owl owls Snowy Owl taxonomy and systematics'

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