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Member Activities / Events / Re: Meet Bobbie Ireland
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on: 14-Nov-10, 12:34:45 PM
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Hi everyone!
I heard from Bobbie Ireland today and she would like to get together on Tuesday around noon for lunch or coffee. Not sure where yet, she will be calling me back about that. I know you all work but if you can possibly make it let me know. I will post more info as I get it.
Cool....Wish I could be there to meet Miss Bobbie! Glad she's coming out to greet the peeps and Beauty! |
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Other Nature Related Information / General Nature Discussion / Re: The ABCs of Birding-G-
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on: 13-Nov-10, 09:37:17 AM
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G is for Gentoo Penguin  http://www.martingrund.de/pinguine/pinguincam2.htm#2 Penguin cam in Antarctica Is easily recognized by the wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head. Chicks have grey backs with white fronts. Adult Gentoos reach a height of 51 to 90 cm (20-36 in),[1][2] making them the largest penguins outside of the two giant species, the Emperor Penguin and the King Penguin. In the water, sea lions, leopard seals, and orca are all predators of the Gentoo. On land there are no predators of full grown Gentoos. Skua can steal their eggs; however, some other seabirds have managed to snatch chicks. Source: Wikipedia! |
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Other Nature Related Information / General Nature Discussion / Roadkill is oldest bald eagle ever documented in wild (Montreal)
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on: 12-Nov-10, 08:39:18 PM
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The dead bird found on a New Brunswick highway this year turned out to be no ordinary roadkill specimen.
Wildlife biologists have traced the metal ring on the raptor's leg to a bird-banding program carried out in Maine in 1977, making the avian accident victim the oldest bald eagle ever documented in the wild.
Despite its unfortunate demise in April after being struckbyacareastof St. Stephen, N.B., the creature's unprecedented longevity is seen as another hopeful sign of the resurgence of the iconic species -one of the most potent symbols of U.S. patriotism -following its threatened extinction in the 1960s.
Bruce Peterjohn, chief of the Bird Banding Laboratory at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland, told Postmedia News the eagle's record-setting age - pegged at 32 years, 10 months -suggests habitat rehabilitation efforts and other binational conservation measures are giving members of the majestic species a much better chance of living a long, well-fed life than they had 40 years ago.
"The fact that the BBL has recently received several reports of bald eagles reaching ages of 29 to 32-plus years suggests that their populations are responding well to the habitats available to support them in eastern North America," Peterjohn said.
"Bald eagle populations have recovered from pesticide-induced lows of the 1960s and early 1970s and are now being reported in numbers that have not been seen for more than 70 years."
The postwar use of the pesticide DDT, later found to have weakened birds' eggshells and severely curbed eagle reproduction, eventually landed the white-headed raptor on endangered species lists across the continent.
But the banning of DDT, heightened efforts to preserve critical habitat and other steps to boost chick survival have helped bald eagle numbers rebound on both sides of the Canada-U. S. border in recent years.
Last month, a dead bird discovered on a roadside near Duluth, Minn., was found to have been tagged in that state in June 1978, making it the second-oldest bald eagle recorded in the wild after the New Brunswick individual.
Bald eagles in captivity have been known to live longer than 33 years. In fact, a flightless female bald eagle called Charlie -which has been cared for by B.C. wildlife advocates since it lost a wing after colliding with a power line decades ago -is believed to be at least 40 years old.
Based on its band number, the New Brunswick bird is known to have been tagged as a chick on June 23, 1977 - two months before the death of Elvis Presley -near Perry, Me., about 40 kilometres southof St. Stepheninthe southeast corner of the state.
THE GAZETTE: Montreal
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Anything Else / Totally OT / Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives
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on: 12-Nov-10, 07:59:56 PM
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New York (CNN) -- Is it Christmas season already? This year's most iconic Christmas tree arrived on a flatbed truck Friday morning and will grace Rockefeller Center in Manhattan when it's officially erected at the end of November.
The 74-foot tall Norway spruce weighing approximately 12 tons was cut down Thursday in Mahopac, N.Y., and hoisted by a huge crane onto a 115-foot-long trailer where it was then driven to Manhattan. The 40-foot-wide tree will be raised at Rockefeller Center Friday.The tree which is approximately 75 years is being donated by Peter and Stephanie Acton. Peter Acton,38, a veteran New York City firefighter and a 9/11 responder, was notified by a team scouting for the Rockefeller Center tree after they spotted it on September 11, 2010.
When the tree is finally decorated for its tree lighting on November 30, it will hold 30,000 multi-colored lights on five miles of wire and will be topped with a Swarovski crystal star, adorned with 25,000 crystals and one million facets.
The first tree was erected in 1931 by construction workers developing Rockefeller Center. The first formal Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony was held in 1933 and was decked with 700 lights in front of the then eight-month-old RCA building. CNN US 
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