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What is the State Bird of Hawaii?

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They probably evolved from the Canada Goose, and today sport black faces, white necks, and grayish bodies. Captive bred geese and reintroduction went hand in hand with active population management, including predator control and habitat protection. Unlike other geese, Nenes prefer walking to swimming.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. But, yes, there are photographs of dead birds and x-ray images of the damage done to individual birds and photographs of the annual FLAP display, as shown below. Did the model work?

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Road birding in New Zealand

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The most common habitat you’ll drive through is modified human farmland, although particularly in the hills you’ll find large areas of forest (although this habitat is typically harder to road bird in. Feral Turkey are also quite common. But these aren’t the only large ground-loving birds you might encounter.