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Pied Oystercatcher chicks four weeks on….

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We continue to have egg predation at many of the nest sites and chick loss, but one pair of Pied Oystercatchers is being successful in raising two chicks so far. There has never been two eggs hatch and two chicks survive for more than about ten days since we started to keep an eye on them in 2000.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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In the publishing world, the Audubon series became famous as proof that packaging firms like Chanticleer could work successfully with respected publishing firms and the company went on to package many other titles for Knopf, including, in 2000, a new field guide called The Sibley Guide to Birds. (If I didn’t.).

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

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Sidney Dunkle’s Dragonflies Through Binoculars , published in 2000, covers only dragonflies, not damselflies.) The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings. Within families, species are organized by genus.