Migrating shorebirds and songbirds have arrived in the Interior - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Migrating shorebirds and songbirds have arrived in the Interior
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Waterfowl sightings include American wigeon, mallard, northern shoveler and pintail, canvasback and lesser scaup. Semipalmated plovers and lesser yellowlegs are also here, along with Bonaparte's and mew gulls. A female American kestrel was seen along ...

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A stroll through Serpentine Fen - Peace Arch News

A stroll through Serpentine Fen
Peace Arch News
It's estimated the 71.3 hectares (176 acres) of habitat in the Serpentine Wildlife Area is home to at least 130 different bird species, including herons, Canada geese and loons, along with less well-known varieties like the lesser scaup, gadwalls and ...

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Migration switch has been flipped on for birds to Interior Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Migration switch has been flipped on for birds to Interior Alaska
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Other arrival highlights on the refuge this week include the constant call of the lesser yellowlegs and solitary sandpiper and the occasional winnow of the Wilson's snipe. The very welcome sight of violet-green and tree swallows wheeling about occurred ...

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Migrants come back with spring weather - EMC Almonte/Carleton Place

Migrants come back with spring weather
EMC Almonte/Carleton Place
We were pleased to see a green-winged teal pair, both lesser and greater scaup, and ring-necked ducks. No cormorants, crows yes. That day in Pakenham, Ray Holland had a brown thrasher in his yard. On Beckwith trail, in Carleton Place, Walter Filipowich ...

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Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: If the blackthorn is sugar, then the ... - The Independent

Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: If the blackthorn is sugar, then the ...
The Independent
It's interesting to compare it with the blossoming of its lesser-known, fellow spiky shrub, the blackthorn, which takes place between a month and two months earlier. This is white, too, but somehow it's an even whiter white (that sounds like a 1950s ...

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