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| | Russia, Arctic Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | KANDALAKSHA, Russia - It has been 50 years since Vitaly Vitalyevich Bianki first traveled to the islands of Kandalaksha Bay, and over the intervening decades he has made his mark so strongly on the Arctic bird sanctuary here that it is now impossible to think of it without thinking of him. |
 | | Kandalaksha, in the northwest corner of the White Sea, plays host every year to hundreds of thousands of birds - not only terns and goldeneyes but also eiders, oystercatchers, guillemots, sandpipers, white-tailed sea-eagles, ospreys, peregrine falcons, great cormorants, willow ptarmigans, fl grouse and herring gulls. |
 | | And Kandalaksha is a nature reserve specifically for birds; so when a fox crosses the ice to one of the islands and, come springtime, begins feasting on mottled green eider eggs in their downy nests, Bianki does not let nature take its course. |
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