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		<title>Our Wondrous World of Wetlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While many were excited to see Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, rise out of his hole facing his own shadow this morning (it looks like we’ll have 6 more weeks of winter), many others around the world are celebrating a separate event: World Wetlands Day.

Wetlands within the James Bay Lowlands of Ontario
Credit: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=989</link>
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		<title>Snowy Owl Sightings Soar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of North America’s most striking yet enigmatic birds, the Snowy Owl, has been anything but elusive so far this winter in many places around the United States, as reported by the New York Times and hundreds of birders around the nation.

Snowy Owl
Credit: Government of Quebec (via Wikimedia Commons) 
It spends its summers way up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=980</link>
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		<title>Actions Over Words: These Aboriginal Leaders are Getting it Done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the majority of North American media has been focused on a few high-profile stories over the past few weeks, an amazing and uplifting story has quietly emerged behind the scenes in Manitoba and Ontario.

A warm welcome from some of the children of Bloodvein First Nation.
Credit: Jeff Wells 
It began with the joint announcement between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=969</link>
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		<title>Will Santa Still Have a Ride?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The holiday season has come and passed. Some of us find ourselves with a few extra presents, many of us find ourselves with a few extra pounds. Whatever it is we’ve gained this winter, it seems as though Santa is facing the opposite problem.
Santa’s reindeer—or caribou as they’re more commonly known in North America—are in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=962</link>
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		<title>Have you been naughty or nice?</title>
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Audubon has a way to make the birds a little less angry this year
Borrowed from: Geekalerts.com website
 
While this question is typically posed to children to determine what sorts of presents they can anticipate over the holidays, most of us would infer it’s a little more complicated than that. Regardless of which side you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=957</link>
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		<title>Growing Crisis in the North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Attawapiskat First Nation office
Credit: Paul Lantz 
We thought it important to bring to your attention a troubling crisis in the far north of Canada. We’ve blogged numerous times in the past about various environmental crises in the boreal forest—from worrisome declines in woodland caribou and migratory birds to destructive industrial projects—but this story focuses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=950</link>
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		<title>Holiday Visitors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the holiday season well underway we thought you might enjoy these terrific waxwing photos our colleague, Valerie Courtois of the Canadian Boreal Initiative, took from her yard way up north in Goose Bay, Labrador. These were taken in November, meaning they could be a bit further south at this point. Enjoy, and hope you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=946</link>
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		<title>Boreal Forest: Coming to a Pocket Near You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Mint, the manufacturer of Canadian currency, has come out with a new sleek coin celebrating Canada&#8217;s vast and wild boreal forest. This new toonie (Canada&#8217;s $2 coin) fits with Mint&#8217;s current trend expanding awareness of Canada&#8217;s natural heritage. It was preceded by a loonie ($1 coin) dedicated to the centennial of Parks Canada and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=933</link>
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		<title>An Aquatic Paradise under Threat</title>
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The Mackenzie River &#8211; largest in Canada
Credit: Irene Owsley
Canada’s boreal forest is big. Real big.
At 1.4 billion acres (think of two Argentinas), this lush and varied landscape spans the middle third of Canada like a green scarf. But it’s not all green. The retreat of ice from the last ice age has left the boreal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=922</link>
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		<title>Boreal Shorebirds Killed in the Caribbean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of satellite transmitters (tags) small enough to fit on birds (large birds at least), our eyes have been opened to the dazzling migration feats that birds perform every day. We have chronicled a number of these feats here in this blog over the years including stories about scoters and eiders and godwits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=916</link>
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