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Birding Santa Cruz Island

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Depending on the time of year, other alcids to expect include Pigeon Guillemots, Common Murres , Rhinoceros Auklets and Cassin’s Auklets. Like several species, breeding Peregrines were extirpated during the height of the DDT era but have reclaimed their island domain in more recent years. is concerned.

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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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I already have a history of searches for this species. We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came – the White Rhinoceros. 10000birds.com/is-my-rhino-still-alive.htm.

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of the Atlantic Ocean, the appropriately named Atlantic Puffin. The first obstacle was getting to the general range of the species, which is the west coast from northern California to Alaska and across to Russia.* I love puffins.