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The Inuit Point of View on Polar Bears

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The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In In the past, Inuit always considered the WWF Canada as our friend," {Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.'s s director of wildlife, Gabriel Nirlinguyak} said, recalling that the two had cooperated on bowhead whale management issues. But not with polar bears."

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Birding the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland

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We later signed up for a whale and birdwatching tour with Captain Wayne , who had a smallish 12-person boat. After a surfeit of stunning Auks, we had a hard time focusing our attention on the Humpback and Minke whales that regaled us with fabulous displays. Trips alcids Canada newfoundland' Happy puffins.

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Of Birds and Bigfoots

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Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow. and Canada” often with cameras at ready. Unexplained!

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Federal Public Lands: Pacific Seabirds

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Northern Fulmar : Approximately half of the North American breeding population in the Pacific Ocean breed in Alaska, with the remainder in northern Canada. Due to concerns about ocean rise on low-lying atolls and islands, a few albatross chicks were recently translocated to James Campbell NWR on Oahu.

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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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Birds like American Coots and Long-eared Owls in Arviat, to Bald Eagles in Whale Cove. White-rumped Sandpiper And this year has been notable for several birds that wouldn’t normally be found here.

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“Earth’s Wild Music”: a book review

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The reader gets to know that Moore loves the song of the Meadowlark, and the sight of whales, and other natural things and beings and sounds and emanations. 26 (US), $34 (Canada). The book consists of essays and stories, written in the first person, most of which have a connection, sometimes a tenuous one, with the auricular.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. It’s a funny, suspenseful road trip with lots of wildlife. Is this a real thing? The rehabber connection, though, is very real.