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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

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Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Flamingos have been reported to abandon their nesting sites even when mining was initiated after the establishment of nesting colonies when the birds were expected to be engaged in a breeding attempt and were less likely to leave the colonies.

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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

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Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. There’s enough scientific data collected already ( eBird illustrated checklist ), it is not as if we really need more. And most of my local patches, the best ones – at least, are not accessible by car any more.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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Snowy Plover Chicks on Okaloosa Island

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Still, it’s a good sign that the parents successfully protected them through this stage, and I cross my fingers that they’ll both make it to adulthood. In another area – near an abandoned military building – a pair of Killdeer had nested next to the remnants of a dirt road. Killdeer Standing Over its Nest.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. Afraid that their ideas for the development of the area, including a ski centre, might be restricted by the nature protection regime, the officials rejected the idea. Also, trekking poles proved useful.

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Greater Sage-grouse v. Wind Turbines in Oregon

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The judge determined that BLM collected sufficient data and made reasonable decisions based on that data, finding the BLM’s actions were not arbitrary and capricious. Photos: Greater Sage-grouse : Jeannie Stafford/ USFWS ; Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area : BLM.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

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Hearing and seeing a bluebird bring to his mind the process of tapping trees and boiling the sap collected down to syrup. He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

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