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Whooping Crane Ancestry

10,000 Birds

Over a decade from 1993 to 2004, conservationists released 289 captive-raised Whooping Cranes into Osceola, Lake and Polk counties in Central Florida. The re-introduction of a non-migratory flock in Florida was designed to be an insurance policy should anything drastic happen to the migratory flock.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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Born in Gambia, raised and living in Sweden , Larsson illustrated three major guides before this one, all authored by Klaus Malling Olsen: Terns of Europe and North America (PUP, rev. 1997), and Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004). 1995), Skuas and Jaegers (Yale Univ. 8) and seabird homes like South Georgia.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. to have and raise children. Should we see a parallel between the alpine accentor and traditional populations of the highest mountains in the world?

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

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At least in the northeastern United States, their rate of so doing is high, according to research I summarized here. This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return.

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