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Pectoral Sandpipers Lookin’ for Love in All the Right Places

10,000 Birds

In some cases the males strayed from their Alaska home base for a bit of far-flung sex tourism in Canada and Russia.). Some male Pectoral Sandpipers in the study logged upwards of 13,000 kilometers in a month, visiting up to 24 different breeding sites. (In

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

The most spectacular case was in Krasnoyarsk Zoo (Russia), where people could watch the life of very interesting and strange family, consisting of four puma cubs, stray dog Mary and baby-badger. Puma rejected her children and they were given to Mary.

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White’s Thrush or Scaly?

10,000 Birds

Since the non-migratory forms are less likely to stray and the two migratory races have both recently been split to White’s, this could be the deal breaker and the subsp toratugumi does lend a pleasing Japanese accent to the chase. toratugumi is the only one that gets a Japanese mention to the north of the archipelago. aurea and Z.d.

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