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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>During the winter months,
birders enjoyed watching boreal ducks such as scaups, scoters, buffleheads,
common goldeneyes and mergansers along the <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Michigan</st1:place><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>shoreline. More than 300
different species of birds, including these ducks, breed in the Canadian Boreal
Forest. <font color=black><span style='color:black'> </span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There is an excellent
article in <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Bird Watcher's Digest</span></b> -
March/April 2008, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Birds of the Boreal Forest
</span></i>by Mel White. White interviews <font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>Jef</span></font>frey Wells, Ph.D., the sen<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>ior</span></font> scientist for the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Boreal Songbird Initiative</span></i>. <font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><http://<a
href="http://www.borealbirds.org" target="_blank">www.borealbirds.org</a>>)</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Please check the Chicago Audubon Society
website for information on the Whiting, Indiana Earth Day event to be held
April 19 at 1:00 p.m. </span></font><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><a
href="http://www.chicagoaudubon.org/">http://www.chicagoaudubon.org/</a></span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>. </span></font><span
class=apple-style-span>There are 18 global, national, state and local
organizations co-sponsoring the event including Chicago Audubon and Sand Ridge
Audubon Societies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Carolyn Marsh, Whiting, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lake County</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">IN</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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