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KIWC Newsletter October 1998 VOL.7 (4/4)
Recently, however, I found that a pair of Red-crowned Cranes are building a nest in an unexpected place: a bamboo grass covering a large area. When I found the nest while conducting airborne ... I went back to the spot and confirmed on the ground what I saw from the sky. The nest was built among bamboo leaves which were as high as my knee. No water existed here or in the ...
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Hoatzin - Relic of Prehistory - Article by Adrian Warren
Of standard clumsy construction, the nest was situated in an exposed position over the water. The incubation period lasted 28 days and ... an ungainly compromise between using the wings as grasping arms and as conventional wings. Although the nest had been built .over the water, the chick made no attempt to dive into it; a wise ...
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John Muir & I
It danced tirelessly but not tunelessly. It's humming was the only sound within my tree-bordered nest except for the crunch of my teeth on granola. The marmot ranged the rocks ... Club, were sufficient to complete work on the basic, original trail. By contrast, the Woods Creek foot bridge was built in 1989 at a cost of about $80,000. There have been many minor changes in the ...
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NMPIF Forests 2
The last recorded nest was reported in 1887 (Hubbard 1978). However, this species has been recently documented in this habitat in the Peloncillo Mountains ... by evergreen oaks; high degree of closed canopy and a moderate to dense understory nests are built at end of branches and are suspended from them usually with a concealing overhang of leaves ...
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The Canadian Peregrine Foundation -- USA & International home page
Terry Carroll, general manager of Minergys paper sludge recycling plant, said employees built a nesting box from plans obtained on the Internet. Its a huge box, he said. It ... it slammed into the building. Maverick and his lady have adapted to city life. A gravel nest was placed there by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. The mother bird ...
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The Raptor Foundation - Common Buzzard
Ireland. The reduction was partly due to the general persecution of birds of prey. The population started to recover from around 1915 to ... old, though sometimes at one year old, often pairing for life. More often than not, a new nest is built every year fairly high in a tree. The eggs are laid between March & May, usually 2 or ...
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Rideau Canal Waterway - Building a Loon Nest
The picture on the right shows a loon nesting in the spring of 1997 on a nest that I built. She successfully hatched two chicks. The cedar log design is based on my own experience. I ... nesting pair, fundamentally a loon looks like a loon, they could be different. In 1996, the brand new nest was official launched on April 16. The female loon arrived back on April 21 but never nested on the ...
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EEK! - Critter Corner - Peregrine Falcon
No "nest" is built or used. Believe it or not, one ledge on an island off Wales in the United Kingdom, ... to rid them of harmful insects. Insects and birds were both affected by DDT but not mammals. DDT was passed through these animals in the food chain and the poison eventually reached the peregrine falcon. This concentration ...
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Ecotecture Design - Richardson
San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, the original house was built like a farmhouse--straight up, gable roof. It failed to take advantage of the natural slope ... going to build his addition, we'd better get started. The basic concept of the Eagle's nest was simple-just extend the original roof line to a new peak. The structural implementation, however, ...
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Great Ape Trust in Sumatra
Heading for Camp Photo: Perry van Duijnhoven Now, five years after that first nest sighting, Gabriella is leading a multi-donor conservation program (that includes SOCP, Golden Ark Foundation, ... the next few days in this amazing setting. Gabriella explained to us that the camp was built after a series of detailed nest censuses showed the area’s highest orangutan density ...
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