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... open areas and are strong fliers , some performing extensive migrations that cover long distances over water . A ruddy turnstone ( Arenaria interpres ) banded in the Pri- bilof Islands was recaptured in the Hawaiian Leeward Islands ...
... open areas and are strong fliers , some performing extensive migrations that cover long distances over water . A ruddy turnstone ( Arenaria interpres ) banded in the Pri- bilof Islands was recaptured in the Hawaiian Leeward Islands ...
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... open country . Coursers feed most actively at night , taking termites , black ants , and other terrestrial arthropods by short dashes . Pratincoles hawk insects on the wing in the manner of swallows . Sheathbills ( Chionididae ) inhabit ...
... open country . Coursers feed most actively at night , taking termites , black ants , and other terrestrial arthropods by short dashes . Pratincoles hawk insects on the wing in the manner of swallows . Sheathbills ( Chionididae ) inhabit ...
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... open . It was established by P.J. Federico in the U.S. that there are 2,606 different combinatorial types of convex polyhedra with nine ver- tices . The numbers of different types with four , five , six , seven , eight vertices have ...
... open . It was established by P.J. Federico in the U.S. that there are 2,606 different combinatorial types of convex polyhedra with nine ver- tices . The numbers of different types with four , five , six , seven , eight vertices have ...
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