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Why Do Bluebirds Have A Better Home Turf Defence?

Edit IFL Science 22 Jun 2016
When bluebirds and swallows do battle over nesting sites, prior ownership counts. Bluebirds are much better at defending a sweet nest that is already in their possession than they are at claiming one that is open ... why do teams play better at home? ... In Auk and Condor Wiebe notes that previous resource owners defeating usurpers is a “prevalent pattern in animal contests.” ... Wiebe wrote ... ....

Students win first prize with a cannon robot (EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 22.06.16- Five robots developed by EPFL students faced off in the school's traditional robot competition. Their mission. to collect recyclable plastic bottles while dodging obstacles, and then deliver them to a collection point ... The robot named Baby won with pizzazz ... Its approach is simple ... Professor Auke Ijspeert, the event organizer, was very pleased with this year's entries....

Mount Alyeska

Edit Newsday 21 Jun 2016
(Credit. Burt Reminick). At the summit of the aerial tram at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood is this striking vista of a mountain lake and surrounding Chugach range. Visitors can also dine at the Seven Glaciers restaurant, where even a beer at the bar comes with a view. (Credit. Burt Reminick). Sighted during a wilderness expedition deep inside Denali National Park ... (Credit. Burt Reminick) ... Sea lions, relaxing on a buoy in Auke Bay, near Juneau....

Singaporean girls smiling in mugshots after caught shoplifting in Bangkok mall

Edit The Jakarta Post 21 Jun 2016
They had just been caught shoplifting in Bangkok, yet fooled around and smiled for their mugshots. The photographs of the two Singaporean girls went viral after they were uploaded on social media, with netizens in both Thailand and Singapore slamming them for their behavior ... Their personal details were later posted online ... But the next day, Facebook user Auk Thanima posted details of the girls on her account ... She said ... ....

Greater Protections Sought for Threatened Marbled Murrelets in Oregon (Oregon Wild)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
(Source. Oregon Wild). PORTLAND, Ore.-- Conservation groups submitted petitions today asking the and the (BOF) to take new measures to better identify and protect important forest areas for protected marbled murrelets ... The agencies are required to work together to recover murrelets ... 'State regulators and Gov ... Background. The marbled murrelet is a member of the auk family, which includes birds like auklets, guillemots and puffins ... (noodl....

Huge diesel spill off Larne coast threatens wildlife

Edit Belfast Telegraph 14 Jun 2016
Wildlife along the coast may be threatened by 40,000 litres of diesel which have poured into the sea at Larne after a leak at the Caterpillar factory, it's feared. Residents said a slick stretches from The Gobbins - a key breeding site for seabirds such as puffins - to Ballygally, north of Larne ... Share Go To ... A spokesman said ... He added ... You've got puffins and auks - all those birds are in the water at the moment." ... ....

A tourist's glimpse of Pyongyang: 'Everything was spotless'

Edit Mashable 12 Jun 2016
"When the plane landed, nobody moved. Everyone was quiet ... Auke Boersma is a Dutch advertising executive who recently travelled to North Korea's capital of Pyongyang as a tourist ... SEE ALSO ... Auke Boersma, getting set to leave for Pyongyang at the Beijing airport, holds up his travel documents. Image. Auke Boersma ... Image. Auke Boersma ... Image. Auke Boersma. Race Day ... Auke Boersma ... Auke Boersma ... Auke Boersma ... Auke Boersma ... Auke Boersma ... auke boersma ... ....

Press Release - Auke Lake Boat Launch Opening (City and Borough of Juneau, AK)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. City and Borough of Juneau, AK) CBJ FAX TRANSMISSION CBJ E-mail/FAX TRANSMISSION ... (907) 364-2390 PSA - Auke Lake Boat Launch. Staff from the CBJ Parks & Recreation Department has installed seasonal regulatory buoys in Auke Lake, and the Auke Lake Boat Launch is now open to the public ... ###....

Seabird on Shiant Isles was oldest of its kind in Europe

Edit BBC News 06 Jun 2016
The shag, which was 31, was fitted with a ring on 30 June 1985 ... Red status. In 1985, it was one of a number of chicks ringed by Sam Powell, then a trainee ringer from South Wales working with the Shiants Auk Ringing Group ... ....

Treasury Notice of 2016 Real Property and LID Foreclosure List for the 2015 Tax Year - week 4 publication (City and Borough of Juneau, AK)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. City and Borough of Juneau, AK) d8211b24-fe1b-42af-9024-0b18d17f8fe1.pdf. June 01, 2016. Treasury Division 155 S. Seward Street Juneau, AK 99801. (907) 586-5218 Phone. (907) 586-5367 Fax ... Note that the delinquent mobile homes are not included in this list and will be addressed under a separate process ... NAME. ASSESSMENT YEAR ... AUKE BAY AK 99821-1444 5B2501020190 ... AUKE BAY AK 99821-0466 OWNER TOTAL ... AUKE BAY AK 99821-0661 8B3701020051....

R&D; Tax Incentive Rebate (Augur Resources Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. Augur Resources Limited) Microsoft Word - pjn8500. ABN 79 106 879 690. 2 June 2016. The Manager Companies ASX Limited. 20 Bridge Street. Sydney NSW 2000 (1 page by email) R&D TAX INCENTIVE REFUND (ASX. AUK) ... Yours faithfully ... pjn8500 ... Phone....

Researchers find positive connection between wood duck’s reproduction, survival (The University of Georgia)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. The University of Georgia). Athens, Ga ... They used mathematical models to analyze data acquired from 1986-96 on female wood ducks nesting on the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina ... future reproductive success of female wood ducks,' was published in the journal The Auk. Ornithological Advances and is available at http.//www.aoucospubs.org/doi/full/10.1642/AUK-15-183.1 ... (noodl. 33903273) ....

Songbirds win spring migration battle of the bulge with extra belly fat

Edit The Examiner 01 Jun 2016
Fat is a migrating songbird’s best friend ... and Canada ... Gulf Coast. Arriving first at northern breeding territories can be a big advantage ... MIGRATION MOVES ... that is precisely what Deutschlander and Holzschuh’s data supports in a paper published June 1, 2016, in the journal The Auk ... Moore, the University of Southern Mississippi migration expert, reviewed The Auk paper prior to its publication and agreed with the authors’ conclusions ... ....
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