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Nature News: Believe it or not, snipes are real - Fosters  May 7, 2016 ... My first memory of snipe was from Girl Scout camp. ... Snipes are an imaginary game bird purported to resemble quails or ... Photo by Hunter Gagnon Snipe are stocky birds with long beaks that resemble woodcocks or sandpipers. ... I was never actually party to a snipe hunt, but believed in the idea and...
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Wilson's Snipe, Life History, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of ...  Learn how to identify Wilson's Snipe, its life history, cool facts, sounds and calls, and watch videos. Though the long tradition of snipe hunt pranks at summer camp has ... But in summer they often stand on fence posts or take to the sky with a fast, ... Thanks to their massive flight muscles this chunky sandpiper can reach...
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The Animals Known to the Eskimos of Northwestern Alaska - JStor  These conditions were but little changed at the time of our visit. Except for the .... course for 72 days in summer the sun never sets, and for about a month before...
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Paudash Lake - Wikipedia  Paudash Lake is a lake in south central Ontario southwest of Bancroft along Highway 28. ... Actually two lakes, 'Paudash' and 'Lower Paudash', the lakes are located on the .... camp on the lake, the hunting parties would occasionally spend the night on ... This is the relevance of the French information, but its relationship to...
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jeopardy/2612_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  5-LETTER BIRDS | Hunted at night by summer campers, but never found, it's actually a real bird related to the sandpiper | snipe. right: Tom. Wrong: Value: $600.
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Fishermen of the Sky | Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey  Perhaps one of the more interesting birds of prey that can again be seen ... The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), known also as the fish eagle, fish hawk, and ... The osprey has a dark brown back and a white belly and head, and is ... The osprey's wing is long and narrow, and angled sharply back at the carpal joint (their elbow).
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NIGHT SOUNDS OF THE DESERT - NYTimes.com  Sep 21, 1986 ... It might be the cactus pygmy owl, which sings all night and most of the day ... for long periods near its nest in a saguaro cactus or a utility pole. ... Anything further from the saguaro screech owl, which makes a loud clap with its mandibles, ... The birds of night are easier than the other creatures, but sooner or...
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Male Yellowhammer, a woodpecker, (Alabama's state bird) aka ...  The unidentified planthopper, which is only 5 millimeters long, was found in the Suriname rainforest by ecologists who discovered 60 new species on a research...
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Louisiana [Archive] - Ivory-bill Researchers Forum  Nov 19, 2006 ... We now realize that there was much that was overlooked by Tanner. .... It is certainly probable that ivory-billed woodpeckers once existed in this ..... is right, and the bird was feeding on an introduced plant species. ...... thereby offering us hope they can actually slowly comeback . ...... It makes you wonder.
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Recent Literature - JStor  95, No. 4, October 1978. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 1978. ... to advancing knowledge of East African birds ... tional Council for Bird Preservation ... tem of the Strigidae (1). ..... ing of juvenile departure from the colony may ... of breeding Pink-footed Geese with ...... colonial sea and wading bird species with.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Cummings Study Guides  In the latter case, they sit on the water to rest or sleep. ... Everywhere the crewmen looked they saw ice. ... at night in the moonlight, he watched the water snakesblue, glossy green, ... Their sleek beauty touched him, and he found himself blessing them. ... Suddenly, the albatross fell from his neck and sank into the sea.
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Irving's bird like hero chased by the Headless Horseman # Quiz ...  Jun 24, 2016 ... Bird Song Hero: The song learning game for everyone. 7:10 ... Fake wooden bird used by hunters to attract ducks # Quiz # Question. 0:29.
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Backyard Bird Identification Sparrows and Finches - Surfbirds.com  Sparrows, Finches and Buntings of North America ... It is found in the mid-western United States in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, and ... It has a dark upper mandible and rust-color on the wings, making it still more similar to the ... The female has a brown head, neck and back with sparrow-like black streaks.
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Bill of the Birds on Blogspot: September 2006  Sep 3, 2006 ... Some were red-winged blackbirds, some were brown-headed ... On very close inspection, via the spotting scope, we could see that the flock was mostly cowbirds (boo hiss!). ... Perhaps it's because these eagles are made out of ceramic. ... The Cape May warbler is named for a specimen collected in Cape...
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Birds of the Week | American Bird Conservancy  Orinoco Goose, Glenn Bartley. Orinoco Goose  Black-capped Vireo, Greg Homel/Natural Elements .... Worthen's Sparrow  Royal Cinclodes, Kazuya Naoki...
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Nature Camps, Inc. - Day Camp Programs  The Blue Bird Song. Way down ..... In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed the sea ... And the band begins to play: (make band noises together).
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How "The Birdman of Alcatraz" Got His Name - Today I Found Out  Nov 22, 2012 ... The real name of the Birdman was Robert Franklin Stroud. ... He continued to be a difficult inmate to handle in Leavenworth and ... class expert on the subject (ornithology) and redirected his energies to writing about them. ... In 1959, the famous Birdman of Alcatraz, who never actually had any birds there,...
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Common Poorwill | Audubon Field Guide  This species is famous as the first known hibernating bird: In cool weather it may enter a ... people knew it long before that: their name for the Poorwill means "the sleeping one." ... White, sometimes with a few spots. ... range in fall; migratory route and winter range of these birds not well known. .... It's the least you can do.
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webapps8 - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources  birds. An ornithologist in New York City in 1886 counted 40 native species on .... team of DNR staff appear to have reduced vandalism ..... wanted the crane sighting kept quiet ... in North America, a whooping ... the wading bird to be a third .... generated in a 5-foot-long trachea looped ... Refuge in 1937 had not produced an.
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Formed by Him | Lee's Birdwatching Adventures Plus | Page 3  Scientists are uncertain as to its exact processes, but do know in general ..... American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) on Thistle by Fenton .... Silver has long been valued as a precious metal, and it is used to make .... (Psalms 68:13 KJV) Even though today this bird, the Wompoo Fruit-Dove, doesn't have Silver in it's name,...
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View of a sidewider snake (Crotalus cerastes) - Stock Image Z785 ...  View of a sidewinder snake (Crotalus cerastes) making tracks in the sand. The sidewinder is a small species of rattlesnake which gets its name from its method of locomotion. ... This results in parallel diagonal imprints of the snake's body in the sand. ... The sidewinder inhabits the deserts of southwestern USA and Mexico.