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Three Amazing Things

10,000 Birds

But, getting the nest set up, amorous acitivites, the laying and hatching of the egg, all that, happens earlier. First this : Bird Flu Strain Jumps From Animals To People For The First Time. But individual birds are not migrating sooner. They migrate every year almost exactly at the same time.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them.

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