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Glenlossie Distillery: 10-Year-Old Speyside Single Malt Whisky

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This incredibly widespread species ranges around the Northern Hemisphere (and much of the Southern as well), and is found in locations as disparate as the Arctic tundra, Hawaii, Cuba, and the Galapagos – as well as many places in between. Sometimes you’ll see no owls at all.

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Winter Wood-Warblers in Southeast Florida

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While most of the country will soon witness a mass exodus in terms of diversity and numbers of warblers, southeast Florida’s formerly empty suburban parks will soon be full of wintering passerines seeking food and shelter in the balmy, pseudo-tropical climate again.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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In A Feathered River Across the Sky , Joel Greenberg quotes the experience of the residents of Columbus, Ohio in 1855: “Now everyone was out of the houses and stores, looking apprehensively at the growing cloud, which was blotting out the rays of the sun. Women gathered their long skirts and hurried for the shelter of stores.

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