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Red-throated Loon Parents: We’re not your waiters

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Recent research published in The Auk suggests that these chicks fledge early just so they can get their own grub. Along the way, they braved sleepless nights and sleeping bears.) This helps spare parents the aggravation and exhaustion of ferrying fish from the ocean to the fishless lakes where the chicks are raised.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

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Yala National Park is brimming with wildlife and there are good chances of seeing Leopard , Sloth Bear and Asian Elephant , while it is also excellent for dry-zone birds, while the nearby Bundala coastal marshes and Palatupana ponds are good spots for shorebirds. He is a guidebook writer, mostly specialised in African travel.

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