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What is the State Bird of Minnesota?

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These black and white water birds are an annual summer presence on freshwater lakes throughout the northern United States and Canada, migrating to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the winter. Unintentional fishing litter can also hurt the birds. Those eerie calls come from the Common Loon, the state bird of Minnesota.

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May Migration in Queens

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Brown Thrashers like the one at Jamaica Bay above, are back to breed in Queens White-crowned Sparrows refuel in Queens on their way north Yellow Warblers are back and singing on breeding territories Ovenbirds forage in the leaf litter before making their way north resident Canada Geese don’t go anywhere and get a head start on breeding Summer (..)

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On the Edge.

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Wildlife concentrates at the Floe Edge, and although we just missed Narwhal as pack ice moved in just after we arrived, the place was littered with Polar Bear. Trips Arctic Canada' They were likely recently driven away by their mother, after more than a year of being with her. . Still, with that many bear you have to stay vigilant.

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Evening Grosbeaks Really Do Exist

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Even a big trip to Canada, though it turned up many other delightful species ( Boreal Owl , anyone?) The husks of box elder seeds littered the ground, neatly stripped and devoured. But between 1988 and 2006, Project Feedwatch showed a fifty-percent decline in Evening Grosbeak sightings.

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Ptarmigan under an Eclipse

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Littered with goose droppings there is little doubt that many Snow Geese nest there, and the gravely delta is an ideal place for Semipalmated and Common Ringed Plovers. But for now, there were only the occasional Raven passing over, and several Glaucous Gulls making themselves at home.

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Thank a lemming

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Lemmings can have four or five litters a year of as many eight young. Few predators are better adapted to prey on lemmings than Ermine Lemmings have cyclical populations that build from low numbers into years where the populations explode, only to crash and then start the cycle over again.

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