Nickerson Beach, Nassau County, New York, July 2011 Common Terns nest in colonies. The sheer number of birds packed together offer some protection to...
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Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting...
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Nick Sly, a friend of 10,000 Birds who writes intermittently at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings, is an ornithologist who graduated not so long ago from...
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