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| | WWF - Ural Mountains Taiga - A Global Ecoregion |
 | | Most birds are not specific to the Urals, but may be found in the European or Siberian taigas. |
 | | These include the Eurasian dipper (Cinclus cinclus), Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), Eurasian dotterel (Charadrius morinellus), Northern fl grouse (Lyrurus tetrix), and the Ural owl (Strix uralensis). |
 | | Centuries of resource exploitation, logging, mining, processing of metals and chemicals, and heavy industry have caused extensive habitat loss and degradation in some locations. |
| www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/ural_mountains_taiga.cfm (270 words) |
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