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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives. Birds like American Coots and Long-eared Owls in Arviat, to Bald Eagles in Whale Cove.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. Have you had rehab experiences with eagles? photo by John Huba. Was there a role model for Mars?

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. We could do it! Then the 80s happened.