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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

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They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. Howell’s Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide, previously reviewed here. Southern Elephant Seals and Weddell Seals are also resident, though not in such large numbers.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. ” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. A newly created U.S.

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