Also known as the common puffin the Atlantic puffin ranges from Main to the British Isles and north to Norway and Newfoundland. It breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, south to Maine and on numerous Atlantic islands. Puffins are in the Alcidae, or auk family, that includes guillemots, auks, murrelets, auklets, puffins, and the razorbill. The Atlantic […]
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Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then, heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.As You Like It. William Shakespeare American holly is a medium-sized, evergreen, broad-leaved tree of the east coast of the U.S. extending from southern N.J. through the coastal states of the southeastern
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This has no digestive organs, and gets no food but from the fire, in which it constantly renews its scaly skin. The salamander, which renews its scaly skin in the fire,—for virtue —Leonardo da Vinci This is a common California salamander with a wide distribution that extends along the coast from Baja California through southern CA
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Lewis’s river appeas to pass through these mots. near their N. Eastern extremity. these hills terminate in a high level plain between the Kooskooske and Lewis’s river. These plains are in many places well covered with the Longleafed pine, with some Larch and balsom fir. The soil is extreemly fertile no dose it appear
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This is one big bird, with a maximum wingspan of 10 ft. 6 in., which is the largest of land birds and fourth in the world only behind two species of albatross and two species of pelican. The Andean condor inhabits the Andes of South America stretching from Venezuela and Colombia through Ecuador, Peru, Chile,
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