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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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It’s presented here from a different perspective, both more personal and more scientific (those footnotes!). I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet.

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The Terns of Tern Island

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Part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, it is an amazing place to take in the seabirds of the North Pacific. The birds are not allowed to breed on the runway, but many loaf around on it. This one found a ledge on one of the buildings a suitable place to lay an egg, a location which is positively decadent for the species.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

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Seabird City Spectacular

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The great white chalk cliffs of Bempton would be impressive enough without the gannets, but add in more than 10,000 pairs of gannets, and around 200,000 auks and Kittiwakes and you have one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in Britain. There were typically four teams of Climmers at Bempton, with each team taking 300-400 eggs a day.

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Week 21: Our last week in Scotland

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I found this little grouping of Guillemots, with parents, babies and even an egg. What started as a small group of birds, with the hope they would make it on their own, is now a very strong breeding population. In support of his “Come@Me” story on bird names, I present for you the Black-headed Gull , with its brown head.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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Most importantly, let us remember that the effects of the spill are still being felt and the BP Oil Spill timeline continues until the present and into the future. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. We documented the relocation of several turtle nests.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. photo by Lynn C. Jackson, 2012.

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