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Osprey in Missoula

10,000 Birds

Early April is a fairly typical time for the earlier-migrating Osprey to arrive (both birds at Dunrovin are already onsite,) but eggs probably won’t appear until late April or early May. Adaptation has its privileges! Adaptation has its privileges! Time enough, I suppose, for our newcomers to figure out that those aren’t eagles.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer). Accessed July 12, 2011 at [link] a. Sources Laden, Greg. Oxford University Press.

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