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Emerald Ash Borers vs. Woodpeckers (and Nuthatches)

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These bark-burrowing beetles, which apparently hitched a ride in cargo shipments from their native Asia, have been starving the ash trees of eastern and midwestern North America to death for a dozen years now. And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. It is the vision that counts!(To

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