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Searching for the Elusive and Less-Colorful: The Sinaloa Martin

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They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Clutch size, incubation period, time to fledge, and eggs are all undescribed. Despite extensive research Lethaby and King (2010) found few records and conclude that this species is rare indeed.

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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

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As we know from the French documentary La Marche de l’Empereur ( March of the Penguins) , the females skedaddle from the breeding colony once she produces an egg, leaving the egg to be incubated by the males, who fast for 120 days while keeping the egg in a flap of their feet. (I

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Storm’s Stork

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Take a medium-sized stork, then imagine placing a fried egg over each of its eyes. Color the white of the egg yellow and the yellow of the egg dark red, and you get a close approximation of what Storm’s Stork looks like. It is also by far the stork species with the lowest number of scientific papers focusing on it.

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405. San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access).

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Collaborative List – May 2018

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405. San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 13 Jan 2018. 01 Jan 2018.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 28 May 2018.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 28 May 2018.

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