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Snowy Plover Chicks on Okaloosa Island

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For the most part it remains undeveloped, with rolling dunes, long beaches, and green marshes. Early Friday morning, I met them at the gate leading to the military-only area of Okaloosa Island. Unsurprisingly, this area is more pristine than many others along the coast. Snowy Plover Chick.

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Minyirr Park, Broome

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Broome is famous for its beautiful long beach, Cable Beach, which runs for approximately 23 kilometres from Gantheaume Point in the south to Willie Creek in the north.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. This issue is an important one and needs to be talked about. If we are to live in a more peaceful world, we must abandon the cruelty on our plates.

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Journey to the End of the World

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Searching the long beach, far-away boats and among them, some white spots: Heuglin’s Gulls , Gull-billed Terns … Not a trace of a Crab-plover, which is known to be wary and prone to take flight at a distance.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. Professor Steiner is entitled to his beliefs and his tofurkey; most of the rest of us will enjoy our turkey without guilt (but with vegetable stuffing). Lawrence S. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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Birding Mount Baldy in June

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Because I had watched some of the kids solo the day before I was given special dispensation to spend a couple of hours on the mountain before we all headed out to the aquarium in Long Beach.

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The Front Cover Bird

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Searching the long beach, far-away boats and among them, some white spots: Heuglin’s Gulls , Gull-billed Terns … Not a trace of a Crab-plover, which is known to be wary and prone to take flight at a distance.