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    A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location. Many kinds...
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    [citation needed] Look up colony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ant colony Beehive (beekeeping) Bird colony Clonal colony Coenocyte Colonisation (biology)...
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    for fulmars and other seabirds. The island is also home to the largest colony of black guillemots in the Uummannaq Fjord region, with the population reaching...
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    Rookery (category Birds)
    dictionary. A rookery is a colony breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. Coming from the nesting...
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    the United States returned to its colony in Skomer, in Wales within 13 days, a distance of 5,150 km (3,200 mi). Birds navigate during migration using a...
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    boat trips run to Cape Enniberg, which is also the site of an important bird colony. Extreme points of the Faroe Islands "To the Raw Cliffs". visitfaroeislands...
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  • Edith Bird (pronounced Marie) (24 August 1891 – 25 August 1979) was a South–African born British producer. She was born in Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal...
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    (450 km; 280 mi). The island contains a small colony of Scopoli's shearwaters where around 25–30 pairs of birds breed in old rabbit holes. Giraglia Giraglia...
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    Little Skellig (category Important Bird Areas of the Republic of Ireland)
    with the larger Skellig Michael. Little Skellig is a nature reserve and bird colony. Landing on Little Skellig is not allowed. Little Skellig is the smaller...
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    boobies and brown noddies. Boat trips take visitors to Roach Island for a bird colony experience. Admiralty (disambiguation) Hutton 1986, p. 81 Hutton, Ian...
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    Cape Kidnappers (category Important Bird Areas of New Zealand)
    and the gannet colony comprises large working farms grazing sheep and cattle. The peninsula, including farm land and the bird colony locations, is enclosed...
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    Albatross (redirect from Goonie bird)
    colony prior to beginning to breed, spending many years practising the elaborate breeding rituals and "dances" for which the family is famous. Birds arriving...
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    Coat of arms of South Africa (category Coats of arms with birds)
    Stellaland Nieuwe Republiek Klein Vrystaat Transvaal Colony Orange River Colony Colony of Natal Cape Colony Bophuthatswana Ciskei Gazankulu KaNgwane KwaNdebele...
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    Atlantic puffin (category Birds of the Arctic)
    approaching the colony, and no bird likes to land in a location where other puffins are not already present. They make several circuits of the colony before alighting...
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    or "Mr. Ned" as he was affectionately known, founded this bird colony—later called Bird City—around 1895 after plume hunters had slaughtered egrets...
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    Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife...
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    October 2007. The village of Bleik in Andøy, with the long beach and a sea bird colony on the small island Bleiksøya. The deep ocean is very close to shore...
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    Emperor penguin (category Birds of Antarctica)
    several hundred birds, with each bird leaning forward on a neighbour. As the wind chill is the least severe in the center of the colony, all the juveniles...
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    (Aralia cordata), and the local spruce-fir forest — a seal rookery, and a bird colony and nesting site. Within the area, hunting, fishing, specimen collection...
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    Northern gannet (category Birds of Europe)
    17th century; the species was known to him from a colony in the Firth of Forth and from a stray bird that was found near Coleshill, Warwickshire. It was...
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    Park. At low tide, the rock is approachable on foot. The rock and the bird colony in Bonaventure Island is about a 75-minute trip from Percé by boat. Visits...
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    large Syltefjordstauran mountain. The mountain is home to a very large bird colony that is popular among tourists. "Informasjon om stadnamn". Norgeskart...
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    Ploceidae (redirect from Weaver bird)
    Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches, or bishops. These names come from the nests...
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    Frigatebird (redirect from Frigate-bird)
    most elaborate mating displays of all seabirds. The male birds take up residence in the colony in groups of up to thirty individuals. They display to females...
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  • The Handy Writers' Colony, often called simply the Handy Colony or The Colony, was a writers' colony located in Marshall, Illinois, which operated from...
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    which the colony is isolated". "Sun. The islands lie close to the 180 degree meridian. Sun is either rising or setting". "Bird. Frigate bird (Fregat Aquilla...
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    Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge) or St. Lazaria Island is a nesting bird colony located twenty miles (32 km) west of Sitka, Alaska and is a part of the...
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    Pecten oculi Uropygial gland Wattle Bird behavior Bird colony Feeding Feeding of birds Food plants Gleaning (birds) Hawking Hoarding Pellet (ornithology)...
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    Northern bald ibis (category Birds of North Africa)
    internationally in recent times, with a semi-wild breeding colony in Turkey which counted almost 250 birds in 2018 as well as sites in Austria, Italy, Spain,...
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    on a bird cliff at the island of Runde. Colony of thick-billed murre at bird cliff of Stappen, Bear Island. Látrabjarg bird cliff, Iceland. Bird hunters...
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