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Birdhouses Designed for Repeat Visitors
By KATE MURPHY
Published: August 11, 2010
AFTER a long day at work, Chuck Abare, 63, a computer designer, likes to sit on the porch of his two-story ranch house on the outskirts of Huntsville, Ala., drink a gin and tonic, and watch the antics of the purple martins winging around his backyard.
Glossy aerial acrobats with forked tails, purple martins are a type of swallow, and the only species of bird entirely dependent on humans for housing.
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As Bats Die, Closing Caves to Control a Fungus
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 2, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The federal Forest Service is preparing to close thousands of caves and former mines in national forests in 33 states in an effort to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats.
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Birdhouses Designed for Repeat Visitors
By KATE MURPHY
Published: August 11, 2010
AFTER a long day at work, Chuck Abare, 63, a computer designer, likes to sit on the porch of his two-story ranch house on the outskirts of Huntsville, Ala., drink a gin and tonic, and watch the antics of the purple martins winging around his backyard.
Glossy aerial acrobats with forked tails, purple martins are a type of swallow, and the only species of bird entirely dependent on humans for housing.
READ THE STORY HERE....
As Bats Die, Closing Caves to Control a Fungus
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 2, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The federal Forest Service is preparing to close thousands of caves and former mines in national forests in 33 states in an effort to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats.
READ THE STORY HERE....
