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Pectoral Sandpipers Lookin’ for Love in All the Right Places

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Instead, they make a wide circuit of many different breeding sites, apparently geared more towards brief hookups with whichever females are in the area. Some male Pectoral Sandpipers in the study logged upwards of 13,000 kilometers in a month, visiting up to 24 different breeding sites. (In

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The Hummingbirds of Western Montana

10,000 Birds

Three of those — the Black-chinned , Calliope , and Rufous Hummingbirds — breed in the Missoula area. That is, in extremely precise mathematical terms, three times more species of hummingbirds than breed near the Olde Homestead. It breeds into Alaska. My yard is nicer than Alaska (sorry Claire.)

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