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...purple ranging from the intense, deep, royal hue, through one with a rosy tinge, to a pale, almost lavender. The white heads of cow parsnip were set off by fields of yellow buttercups and blue lupine. The lupine had been well-visited by bees...
...fishing boats and fish processors. The black-legged kittiwake is a gray-backed gull that as a breeding adult has a white head, a white tail, and small black tips on its wings - often said to look as if colored by being dipped in ink. Immature...
...produced. The males - which in breeding plumage have a black back, white shoulders, chestnut breast and belly and a white head with a green tuft and black eye patches - reverted to an ordinary brown. Weingartz and Hollmen are optimistic about...
...flawless, and those dark eyes characteristic of people from her part of the world drew in all upon whom her gaze fell. The white head scarf added to her allure. In some ways, she reminded one of a younger Elizabeth Taylor. She could stop conversation...
ANCHORAGE - Fifty years ago, a whale hunter in Cook Inlet could count on spotting the bulbous white heads of a beluga pod after a half hour or less on the water. Sound off on the important issues at But with the whales' rapid and mysterious...
...There are roughly 25,000 eagles in Southeast Alaska. The raptor is named the "bald" eagle for its conspicuous white head and tail, but the distinctive white plumage is not attained until the age of five or older. The eagles often use and...
...scattered, or not bothered flying south. "Normally, that whole shoreline along Credit Island would be all solid white heads, but I guess you'd have to go up to Minnesota today," Millar said, peering through binoculars at a line of trees...
...other pesticides that weakened the bald eagle's eggshells and reduced its birth rate. The eagle, with its distinctive white head and tail, also suffered from lead poisoning - eating waterfowl pierced by a hunter's lead shot. So in 1967, under...
...000 feathers to groom. The bald eagle's scientific name is Hallaeetus leucocephalus, which means "sea eagle with a white head." When the eagle was named, "bald" meant "white" or "white-headed." Alaska has an estimated 45,000 to 50...
ANCHORAGE - A diminutive sea duck with a white head and a blue wing could bring restrictions to one of the...males' breeding plumage is magnificent. They have a white head with a greenish tuft and small black eye patches, a...