And when at Night – Our good Day done – I guard My Master’s Head – ‘Tis better than the Eider-Duck’sDeep Pillow – to have shared -My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun – Emily Dickinson This is a large and stocky duck found along the coastline of North America, Europe, and eastern Siberia – it is […]
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The Tinian Monarch is a flycatcher found only on the 39 square mile island of Tinian, which is adjacent to the island of Saipan and part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI). The species was listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1970 because of persistent low populations
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Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity of the oceans is even greater. Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer he genus Glycera is a group within the Class of Polychaetes that are commonly referred to as blood worms. They are found in marine sediments in shallow water. They have a creamy pink
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“Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.”“Ain’t hateful, just persuades him- ‘s not like you’d chunk him in the fire,” Jem growled.“How do you know a match don’t hurt him?”“Turtles can’t feel , stupid,” said Jem.“Were you ever a turtle, huh?”– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird This is a large freshwater
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Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads,Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum!In the morning laughing happy fish headsIn the evening floating in the soup,Ask a fish head anything you want toThey won’t answer, they can’t talk – Fish head song, Barnes and Barnes his is a small rockfish with a wide range, inhabiting the
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