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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010. Isn’t that neat? .&#

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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For instance, Frederick rejected centuries-old folk wisdom that claimed that Barnacle Geese ( Branta leucopsis ) – a species with a seasonal occurrence in Europe – were born not of eggs laid by breeding geese but were spontaneously incarnated from driftwood afloat at sea. Could this be the first “accipiter sp.”

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