Beware of Falling Clams
/Two gulls chasing each other this morning, fighting over a quahog. First they almost collide with my head, then they drop the clam on me.
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Owl-style survival gear
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Tawny owls come in two colors: gray or brown. Brown morphs seem to fare poorly during harsh winters. Do gray morphs have feathers with better insulation?
Read MoreMoths go with the flow
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Silver Y moths are named for a silvery squiggle that adorns each forewing, like a handwritten y. Twice a year these moths (and a lot of songbirds) migrate over Europe while researchers track them with radar. But how do they deal with the wind?
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/Atlantic Puffin, Pine Point Beach, Maine
Don't call it a seagull!
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In New England, winter is for gull-watching. I stood on Jodrey State Fish Pier in the fog and drizzle of a late Friday morning in January, inside a roiling cloud of gray and white birds. A stocky fisherman in orange foul-weather gear had just thrown a bucketful of...
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