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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Cliff swallows fly in formation near the mud nests the flock of birds built hanging on to a rock wall in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Red and yellow barbet birds perch atop a termite mound.
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  • Hunters scale trees with makeshift smoker baskets in pursuit of honey. One Pygmy spots bees swarming and climbs 60 feet up in the air making a long rope and basket out of vines and leaves. He carries a smoldering log to drive the bees from the hive before collecting the honey.
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  • A rain cell forming over a grassland dotted with termite mounds.
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  • Cloud and clear sky over a baobab tree in field with termite mounds.
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  • A double rainbow over a  Australian grassland with termite mounds.
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  • Storm clouds are a backdrop for an osphrey nest in the top of a tree on the Suwannee River.
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  • Beaver building a dam, Ozark Mountains area.
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  • Australian grassland with termite mounds.
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  • A young hatchling suns on a sunken log in the Okefenokee Swamp. Mothers aggressively guard the nests when until the juveniles begin hunting on their own. American alligators were once threatened from hunting but with protections have recovered although hatchlings are vulnerable to predators.
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  • A family of trumpeter swans and a cygnet swims in blue waters of Tangle Lakes near Alaska's Denali National Park. Trumpeter Swans forage in shallow water, reaching under the surface to eat aquatic vegetation. Although Trumpeter Swans have been dubbed “a classic conservation success” and numbers have increased, human threats affect the population. The swans are extremely sensitive to human disturbance at their breeding sites and will abandon nests and cygnets if disturbed.
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  • A family of trumpeter swans and a cygnet swims in blue waters of Tangle Lakes near Alaska's Denali National Park. Trumpeter Swans forage in shallow water, reaching under the surface to eat aquatic vegetation. Although Trumpeter Swans have been dubbed “a classic conservation success” and numbers have increased, human threats affect the population. The swans are extremely sensitive to human disturbance at their breeding sites and will abandon nests and cygnets if disturbed.
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  • A family of trumpeter swans and a cygnet swims in blue waters of Tangle Lakes near Alaska's Denali National Park. Trumpeter Swans forage in shallow water, reaching under the surface to eat aquatic vegetation. Although Trumpeter Swans have been dubbed “a classic conservation success” and numbers have increased, human threats affect the population. The swans are extremely sensitive to human disturbance at their breeding sites and will abandon nests and cygnets if disturbed.
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  • A family of trumpeter swans and a cygnet swims in blue waters of Tangle Lakes near Alaska's Denali National Park. Trumpeter Swans forage in shallow water, reaching under the surface to eat aquatic vegetation. Although Trumpeter Swans have been dubbed “a classic conservation success” and numbers have increased, human threats affect the population. The swans are extremely sensitive to human disturbance at their breeding sites and will abandon nests and cygnets if disturbed.
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  • A family of trumpeter swans swims in clear waters of Tangle Lakes hiding in the grasses in the shadow of Alaska's Denali National Park. Trumpeter Swans forage in shallow water, reaching under the surface to eat aquatic vegetation. Although Trumpeter Swans have been dubbed “a classic conservation success” and numbers have increased, human threats affect the population. The swans are extremely sensitive to human disturbance at their breeding sites and will abandon nests and cygnets if disturbed.
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  • Researchers track a mother sage-grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, to study her chick’s behavior. Sage-grouses are found only in sagebrush country in the west nesting on the ground and eating sagebrush leaves which are a staple of the grouse’s winter diet. The sage-grouse faces extinction as populations plunged by 80 percent according to Audubon.<br />
As oil and gas fields multiply and climate change intensifies, grassland habitats disappear and birds like the Lesser Prairie-Chicken pay the price. Hens lay an average of 6-9 eggs in a ground nest hidden under sagebrush. Numbers are declining, largely due to habitat loss from fire, invasive plants and
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  • Researchers take notes about one day old sage grouse chicks, Centrocercus urophasianus that they captured to study. Sage grouses are found only in sagebrush country of the west. Nesting on the ground, the leaves of this plant are a staple diet in winter. As oil and gas fields multiply and climate change intensifies, grassland habitats disappear and birds like the Lesser Prairie-Chicken pay the price. Hens lay an average of 6-9 eggs in a ground nest hidden under sagebrush. Numbers are declining, largely due to habitat loss.
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  • A juvenile alligator is born with a natural instinct to swim. They measure about 6 to 8 inches when newly hatched and live in small groups, called "pods." Although under the protective eye of their mothers who aggressively guard the nest, some 80 percent of juvenile alligators fall victim to predators such as birds, raccoons, bobcats, otters, snakes, large bass and larger alligators.
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  • A tranquilized brown bear (Ursus arctos) creates a problem for Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife researchers. They darted a 16-year-old male in Kingsburg Creek tributary of the Unuk River while studying the grizzly bear range and habitat in southeast Alaska near the Canadian border. <br />
The 600-pound males slipped down the edge of a muddy embankment and was too heavy to move. With only a short time to work before the bear is revived, the two men took their research notes and then quickly built the bear a nest of branches so he wouldn’t fall into the creek upon waking.<br />
Brown bears decline in the range and numbers in the lower 48 states heightened management concern in habitat-related studies. It is believed that brown bears avoid clearcuts and are more often found in riparian old growth, wetlands, and alpine/subalpine habitat because of more nutritious foraging and better cover.
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. <br />
<br />
Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. They do a courtship dance that begins with a bow.<br />
<br />
Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Balsa-like Pisonia trees grow unmolested on the islands of Palymra.  The fiber of this tropical tree is soft like balsa wood.  The buttress trunks and tangled branches of these trees allow for Palmyra to transform itself into a spectacul ar forest nursery for tens of thousands of nesting seabirds and their young each spring.
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. <br />
<br />
Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
<br />
Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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