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Horrible Hybrids

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Where it had spent the summer is anyone’s guess, but the majority of the Pochard that winter in the UK come from Eastern Europe and Russia, with birds ringed in Latvia being particularly numerous. One year he was very excited when his female Hawaiian Goose hatched four healthy goslings, the first time he had managed to breed this species.

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What is the State Bird of Alaska?

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The Willow Ptarmigan, which is the most numerous, can also be found in Russia, Finland, Scandinavia, and Canada. Unlike other grouse species, the male Willow Ptarmigan remains with the female throughout the breeding season to help raise the chicks. There are three species of ptarmigan, all found in Alaska.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

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Time and the Tilting Earth*

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That’s about 400 hundred people in Canada, 2600 in Greenland, 2500 in Svalbrad (Norway), and 700 or so in Russia. It is often quiet and still, but filled with the hustle and bustle of birds trying to cram a breeding season into an abbreviated summer. Those lucky few can lay claim to even more rays than us here.

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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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The black geese – Brent/Brant, Canada, Barnacle – show a little more variety, but there’s only one goose that really stands out for its striking plumage, and that’s the appropriately named Red-breasted. Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining.

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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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A covey of Greys

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David Tomlinson If you are American then you will no doubt know Perdix perdix as the Gray Partridge , an introduced game bird now widespread on the prairies of Canada and the northern states of the USA. EBA2 goes on to say that the “Grey Partridge has undergone one of the steepest declines of all European farmland birds”.

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