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spoonbill


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Recent news articles on spoonbill:


    Conservationists watching for black-faced spoonbill arrivals  Oct 31, 2003
    Conservationists said yesterday that the number of black-faced spoonbills arriving at their major wintering habitat in Tainan County, southern Taiwan, has been ... (eTaiwan News, Taiwan)

    The seventh annual campus spoonbill migration  Oct 16, 2003
    The students’ designs captured the spoonbill’s flight or movement, funny feeding patterns, elegant form, and color — or, less appealingly but no less ... (Berkeleyan, CA)

    Joe Hermosa / Valley Morning Star  Nov 9, 2003
    Rebecca Cortez of Harlingen brought her two elementary school age sons Mark and Daniel to the Kiskadee Korner where they made made roseate spoonbill masks out ... (Harlingen Valley Morning Star, TX)

    Calendar of events  Nov 6, 2003
    5 and 6, carrier shell; 12 and 13, scrub pine; 19 and 20, black drum; 26 and 27, roseate spoonbill; March 4 and 5, mole cricket; 11 and 12, loggerhead turtle ... (Naples Daily News, FL)

    Duck camp: Minnesotans find ducks and more in North Dakota  Oct 18, 2003
    You can't ask for anything more beautiful than that," he said. Earlier, he bagged a shoveler -- also called a spoonbill for its big spoonlike bill. ... (Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN)

    Fall is great time to visit Louisiana ’ s state parks  Nov 2, 2003
    ...cattle egrets. There are ibis, pelicans, and roseate spoonbill, “which everybody thinks are flamingos,” Rush said. The best ... (The Advertiser, LA)

    Number of birds flocking to Khijadiya falls  Nov 2, 2003
    ...at Khijadiya Asari says, "Birds which have made their nests this year include the painted stork, large cormorate, little cormonent, Indian sage, spoonbill ... (Times of India, India)

    Sports Spasms  Oct 31, 2003
    A huge tank housed a school of spoonbill catfish and gar, several huge bluecats and flatheads were on display, and seldom-seen species such as eels, bowfins ... (Alva Review Courier, OK)

    NATURAL ENCOUNTERS  Oct 26, 2003
    ...and cattle egrets. There are ibis, pelicans, and roseate spoonbill, "which everybody thinks are flamingos," Rush said. The best ... (Times Picayune, LA)

    No offense, fishies, but our thoughts this week were in sky  Oct 24, 2003
    I still remember the first duck I killed because I walked back to Dad and said, 'I've got a mallard hen.' He said, 'That's no mallard, that's a spoonbill.'. ... (Peoria Journal Star, IL)

    Ric Vasquez / Valley Morning Star  Oct 22, 2003
    The immense ranch, filled with plenty of trees and dotted with large ponds, is home to a variety of birds such as the roseate spoonbill, Harris’ hawk and ... (Harlingen Valley Morning Star, TX)

    610 Magnolia blooms  Oct 18, 2003
    The first course (L'amuse Froid) of cool bites consisted of a groaningly delicious tiny smoked salmon crepe topped with a dollop of spoonbill caviar, a small ... (Louisville Courier Journal, KY)

    Reprieve for vital wetland may be short lived  09 Oct 2003
    Black-faced spoonbill, Endangered with a population of less than 700. - Ten percent of the global population of spoon-billed sandpiper. ... (Talk Wild Life, UK)

    The 7th annual spoonbill migration  Oct 7, 2003
    The professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning was in the early days of an effort to save the endangered black-faced spoonbill, whose ... (UC Berkeley (press release), CA)

    The ruffling of feathers  Oct 1, 2003
    ...has produced an attractive account of a publishing story that will be enjoyed both by specialists and by those who don't know one end of a Roseate Spoonbill ... (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)

    Paddlefish Season To Get Under Way Wednesday  Sep 30, 2003
    The ancient paddlefish (or spoonbill) for one, and beginning this Wednesday many fishermen will hope that these fish decide to come up for some air. ... (Yankton Daily Press, SD)

    A hidden treasure on the Texas Coast  Oct 4, 2003
    ...play. And you'll find some great photographs of migratory birds that go through the county at the Roseate Spoonbill Gallery. Not ... (News 9 San Antonio, TX)

    Police report  Sep 10, 2003
    Theft: At 3:27 pm on Sept. 4, a woman reported that someone stole her cellular phone in the 100 block of Spoonbill Court. Shoplifting: At 5:52 pm on Sept. ... (Jupiter Courier, FL)



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