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    Eastern Egg Rock Island is an island in the Town of St. George in Knox County in the U.S. state of Maine. It is owned by the Maine Department of Inland...
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    Matinicus Rock and Machias Seal Island. The project began with an attempt to restore puffins to Eastern Egg Rock Island in Muscongus Bay, about 6 miles...
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    Atlantic puffin (category Native birds of Eastern Canada)
    Society to restore Atlantic puffins to nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. Eastern Egg Rock Island in Muscongus Bay, about 10 km (6 mi) from Pemaquid...
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  • Ossabaw Island Egg Island Wolf Island Butler Island Blackbeard Island Bartoo Island Rock Island Rock Island Arsenal Biddle Island Holmes Island Ribeyre...
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    projecting through the square keeper's house. Located on Egg Rock, midway between Mount Desert Island and the Schoodic Peninsula, it is an active aid to navigation...
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    known as the Egg War, left two men dead and marked the end of private companies on the islands, although the lighthouse keepers continued egging.[citation...
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    Anegada, British Virgin Islands (successful) Atlantic puffin to Eastern Egg Rock Island, Maine Bald eagle to Channel Islands National Park, California...
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    intermittent island of about 100 by 50 meters. Egg Rock is usually accessible using foot trails over land, but during high river levels the island is separated...
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    such, is the eastern terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line. The North Fork is also geographically tied to Shelter Island, an island town in the...
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    Although uninhabited, the island is a nesting site for seabirds — most notably the least and crested auklet — which prompt egg-collecting visits from local...
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    & egg exports, Dassen Island (1954)". Press and Sun-Bulletin. 23 October 1954. p. 4. Retrieved 9 May 2020. "South African penguins of Dassen Island (1975)"...
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    Egg Rock Light was first established in 1856 after a schooner went down with the loss of five lives. The original structure was a lantern on top of a stone...
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    Moai (redirect from Easter Island Head)
    monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at...
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    Cato Reef (redirect from Hutchison Rock)
    metres (1,150 ft) north of the eastern end of Cato Island; it has a conspicuous rock at half tide on its eastern side. The island lies on the western end of...
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    classified as a "rock", which would only give Venezuela a twelve nautical mile economic zone. However, Venezuela claims it is a normal island, which grants...
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    Phrynosomatidae. The species is found along forest edges, rock piles, and rotting logs or stumps in the eastern United States. It is sometimes referred to as the...
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    predator of the island, whose megafauna once included giant lemurs and pygmy hippopotamuses. Another possible origin of the myth is accounts of eggs of another...
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    It lays one white egg, the timing of laying varying from island to island, on some islands breeding throughout the year. The egg is incubated for around...
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  • snake South eastern corn snake Cottonmouth Crowned snake Cuban wood snake Eastern hognose snake Egg-eater Indian egg-eater Eyelash viper Eastern coral snake...
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    ptarmigan. The rock ptarmigan has 23 recognized subspecies: L. m. atkhensis (Turner, 1882) - Tanaga Island, Adak Island and Atka Island. (west-central...
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    Leach's storm petrel (category Native birds of Eastern Canada)
    islands in the colder northern areas of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It nests in colonies close to the sea in well concealed areas such as rock crevices...
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    stands out well clear from Egg Island and, in thick weather, serves as an excellent mark by which to recognize Egg Island. Aleks Rock, on which the sea breaks...
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    The Eastern Isles (Cornish: Enesow Goonhyli, islands of the salt water downs) are a group of twelve small uninhabited islands within the Isles of Scilly...
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    Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The specific epithet is the Latin word for a type of eared owl. The eastern screech owl is now one of 22 screech...
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    Great auk (category Native birds of Eastern Canada)
    colonies, laying one egg on bare rock. The egg was white with variable brown marbling. Both parents participated in the incubation of the egg for around six...
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    Tufted puffin (category Birds of the Aleutian Islands)
    entirely mammal-free islands protects them from terrestrial predators while laying eggs in burrows is effective in protecting them from egg-scavengers like...
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    The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the...
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    Zealand and other parts of Australasia, including eastern Indonesia (the Moluccas, Aru and Kai Islands), Papua New Guinea, and Australia. A member of the...
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  • Island Barrientos Island Barrier Island Baseline Rock Basso Island Baurene Island Bayard Islands Bazett Island Beagle Island Beak Island Bear Island (68°11′S...
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  • Thumbnail for Eastern hognose snake
    the eastern hognose snake occurs, it currently has "listed" conservation status in four (Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island). Noted...
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