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  NatureWorks - Willet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The willet is a large shorebird that is a member of the sandpiper family.
The willet forages in mudflats, intertidal areas, and shallow marsh waters and snatches up food from the surface or the water or it probes in the mud with its long bill.
Willets are very territorial and will aggressively defend their nesting and feeding territory.
www.nhptv.org /natureworks/willet.htm   (329 words)

  
 BiRDZiLLA: Willet
Willets which I have found breeding on the coasts of Louisiana and Texas have proved to be referable to the eastern form.
Willets on their breeding grounds are among the noisiest and most demonstrative of birds.
Willets of some form, in immature plumage, are quite common at times in southern New England and on Long Island from the middle of July to the middle of September.
www.birdzilla.com /omnibus.asp?strType=Bent&strTitle=Willet&strURL=willet.htm   (5569 words)

  
 All About Birds
A large sandpiper of the interior West and the ocean beaches, the Willet is known by its piercing calls and bright fl-and-white flashing wings.
Willets breeding in the interior of the West differ from the Atlantic Coastal form in ecology, morphology, and subtly in calls.
Western Willets breed in freshwater habitats, and are slightly larger and paler gray.
www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Willet.html   (153 words)

  
 CT DEP: Willet Fact Sheet
Identification: The willet is a relatively large member of the sandpiper family, with a uniformly gray appearance when at rest.
The willet was listed as a state threatened species when Connecticut first established its endangered and threatened species list in 1992.
In 1998, the willet was officially reclassified to a species of special concern.
dep.state.ct.us /burnatr/wildlife/factshts/willet.htm   (655 words)

  
 NPWRC :: Effects of Management Practices on Grassland Birds: Willet
Willets prefer native grass to tame vegetation (Stewart 1975, Ryan and Renken 1987, Kantrud and Higgins 1992).
Use by Willets of bentonite clay, coal surface-mine, and livestock water impoundments was studied in northeastern Wyoming, western South Dakota, and western North Dakota (Uresk and Severson 1988).
Ecology of Willets and Marbled Godwits in the glaciated prairie region.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/literatr/grasbird/will/will.htm   (3521 words)

  
 Willet, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Town of Willet is in the southeast part of the county.
Willet was created from a part of the Town of Cincinnatus in 1813.
Willet -- A hamlet in the north part of the town at the junction of Route 26 and Route 41.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willet,_New_York   (462 words)

  
 NPWRC :: Marshbirds and Shorebirds of North Dakota
The willet acquired its name from the territorial call it gives on the breeding ground -- a melodic whistled pill-will-willet.
The willet is often observed feeding with other shorebirds on mud flats and alkali shorelines.
The willet is found statewide but the largest concentrations can be observed on the Missouri Coteau and Northern Drift Plain.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/marshbrd/willet.htm   (155 words)

  
 The Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet.
The Willets rarely failed to fly close over the dog, and as he now and then, playfully, as it were, approached me, the birds came within shooting distance.
The Willets retire to the interior of the larger salt-marshes for the purpose of forming their nests and raising their broods in security.
The food of the Willet consists of aquatic insects, small crabs, and fiddlers, which they procure either by pursuing them on foot or by probing for them in their burrows, along the mud-bars, and in the crevices of the creeks and salt-water ditches.
www.audubon.org /bird/boa/F36_G4f.html   (1968 words)

  
 The Town of Willet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The town of Willet is in the southeast corner of Cortland County.
The Hamlet of Willet is located at the intersections of State Routes 41 and 26 with County Highway 166, on the East Side of the Otselic River.
The town of Willet has a planning board, zoning ordinance, a master plan, subdivision ordinance, mobile home ordinance, a noise abatement ordinance, junk yard ordinance, flood plan regulations, and road building specifications.
www.cortlandbusiness.com /county/profiles/willet.html   (509 words)

  
 Willet
Willet (Minesweeper No. 54) was laid down on 19 May 1919 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched on 11 September 1919; sponsored by Miss Caroline Chantry, the daughter of Comdr.
After brief service with the Atlantic Fleet Train, Willet was decommissioned on 29 May 1920 and simultaneously transferred, on loan, to the United States Shipping Board.
Classified as a salvage vessel on 13 September 1941 and simultaneously redesignated ARS-12, Willet operated in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico through the end of hostilities.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w8/willet.htm   (297 words)

  
 Willets--BIOLOGICAL AND ECOTOXICOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE SPECIES RESIDING IN ESTUARIES
The willet is a solitary nester that breeds in coastal beaches, freshwater and salt marshes, lake shores and wet prairies.
In 1982, willets (N=2) collected in Texas were one of six bird species with a feeding habit of probing sediment that did not have ingested Pb shot (Hall and Fisher, 1985).
Contaminant exposure of willets feeding in agricultural drainages of the lower Rio Grande Valley of south Texas.
www.pwrc.usgs.gov /Bioeco/willet.htm   (779 words)

  
 Forget About Willet
North Shore University Hospital's lease of Willet Avenue School was extended until the year 2001 at a special meeting of the Board of Education.
Willet had been discussed as being a possible site for a kindergarten center or as a K-5 elementary school.
Finn also explained that he did not recommend the use of the Willet facility as a K-5 school because of the structural make-up of the building.
www.antonnews.com /hicksvilleillustratednews/1998/03/06/news   (655 words)

  
 Willet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eastern Willet breeds in coastal saltmarshes from Nova Scotia to Mexico and the Caribbean.
Willets nest on the ground, usually in well-hidden locations in short grass, often in colonies.
The willet's population declined sharply due to hunting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willet   (431 words)

  
 Lewis and Clark as Naturalists
Belonging to the sandpiper family, the willet shares the stilt-like legs and long, tapered bill with many members of the family.
The willet is a drab brown and gray bird that can be difficult to distinguish from other shore birds probing the water margins for worms, crustaceans, mollusks, and small fish.
Lewis was astute in recognizing the bird was both similar and different from shore birds he had seen in the East, yet he placed the willet with plovers, which are an entirely different family of probing birds best distinguished by their shorter and more blunt bills.
www.mnh.si.edu /lewisandclark/species.cfm?id=221   (150 words)

  
 Willet Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas
According to Stevenson and Anderson (1994), breeding Willets inhabit "shortgrass salt marshes and beaches where dunes rise above the high-tide line and are covered with clumps of beach grass (Panicum amarum) and sea oats (Uniola paniculata)." The Willet sometimes nests on open beaches but, most often, the nest is carefully hidden in marsh grasses.
The Willet is a semicolonial breeder, in the sense that several pairs often nest closely together.
Willets nest along the entire Florida coastline, and it is highly likely that they breed in almost every location where they are mapped.
myfwc.com /bba/WILL.htm   (399 words)

  
 Backing up Slim Willet
The claims that Willet took credit for the song actually written by an unnamed musician, now deceased, surfaced in recent years in two published reports by columnist Roxy Gordon in the Coleman Chronicle.
Willet (verified by his widow, Abilenian Jimmie Moore) then spent 10 months re-working "Stars," though retaining its wrap-around meter which would become famous through the 100-plus different recordings and millions of sales of the country-crossover hit.
Willet died in Abilene in 1966 and is buried in his birthplace of Victor, near DeLeon.
www.texnews.com /slimwillet/backing.html   (676 words)

  
 Consider hEath Willett
The light complexioned, light-haired, gray-eyed Willet was born December 12, 1840 in Onondaga, New York, and graduated from the Normal School in July 1862.
Willet was highly respected by his fellow soldiers, including James Woodworth.
Woodworth saw Willet as one of the hardest working and bravest men in the regiment, and one who did not get the recognition that he truly deserved.
home.nycap.rr.com /civilwar/willettns.htm   (396 words)

  
 About Willet Hauser
Each year, we work with hundreds of churches and other institutions to design beautiful new glass windows or to repair, restore, and protect their existing treasures.
Because Willet Hauser is one of the largest studios in the world, you can select from very diverse and distinctive leaded, faceted, hand painted, or sculptured gold windows that are unsurpassed.
Willet Hauser's impeccable standard for unsurpassed quality, artistry, and craftsmanship is blended into every project we produce.
www.willethauser.com /aboutwh   (109 words)

  
 For Parents
Two years earlier, Willet and her husband, Mac, had adopted Melissa and her older sister, Jennifer, giving them a loving home after a life of foster care turmoil.
The next day, Willet told Melissa she wanted to make something clear: "You can't do anything bad enough that I'm not going to be your mom." The outbursts stopped.
Mac Willet, a Charlotte, SC accountant, says that his county social services classes on foster and adoptive parenting taught him more than the college courses it took to earn two degrees.
www.caseyfamilyservices.org /p_willets.html   (728 words)

  
 Willet Hauser Web Site Design | Architectural Stained Glass
The Willet Hauser Web site also needed to visually communicate the company's antes and drivers that were identified during the marketing strategy project.
Willet Hauser is the preeminent stained glass studio in the country and operates facilities in Winona, Minnesota, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Willet Hauser has designed and installed over 15,000 projects, including some of the most magnificent stained glass windows for religious buildings within the United States and in 14 countries around the world.
www.avsgroup.com /casestudies/willethauser.asp   (457 words)

  
 Willet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Willet are abundant in Malheur country, often calling from fenceposts, much as snipe do.
Since willet are fond of roosting on fenceposts, they can often be photographed from one's car.
Willet are so abundant that it is pointless to list areas to find them.
donb.furfly.net /malheur/birds/willet.html   (174 words)

  
 Birds and Nature: Some Facts About the Western Willet
The Western Willet is one of the largest of the Limicolae or Shore Birds.
I have never seen a bird which at times could be so wary and hard to approach, and again, if a number are shot from a flock, the remaining birds will seem to lose their senses, and I have frequently walked within a few feet of the survivors before they would take flight.
Though the Willets are restless and noisy birds, they are much less so, and, indeed, quite unconscious of their surroundings when nesting.
www.birdnature.com /nov1900/willet.html   (619 words)

  
 Willet
A willet is one of the larger sandpiper-type birds, averaging 14-17 inches in length.
In winter, its chest is light gray; however, as summer approaches, a pattern of darker feathers is interspersed with the gray.
In flight, the willet shows a distinct white patch on its wings.
www.zinnysworld.com /willet.htm   (83 words)

  
 Nearctica - Natural History - Birds of Eastern North America - Scolopacidae - Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
Breeding Range (see map below): The Willet is resident all year along the eastern coast from Nova Scotia in the north, southward to Florida, and westward to southeastern Texas.
Habitat: The Willet is found on coastal beaches and freshwater and salt marshes.
Breeding populations in the interior are found in marshes, wet prairie, and along lake shores.
www.nearctica.com /birds/sandpipe/Csemip.htm   (313 words)

  
 Willet Identification - Western or Eastern?
The reason that the western Willets we identify on the East Coast are 'obviously' different-looking is that the ones we identify are not tiny western Willets, the nominate birds standing next to them are not uniformly enormous nominate birds, direct comparison of multiple characters is generally possible, and plumage cues are available for corroboration.
The average difference between the two Willets is at least as great as that between Yellow and Myrtle Warblers, which many would agree is often discernible even on lone birds--despite the fact that these two actually have overlapping mensural ranges (believe it or not!).
Given the ridiculously small samples of 3 W and 3 E Willets, this little exercise is hardly to be taken seriously, but shows what might be done with larger samples of photographs.
www.oceanwanderers.com /ONWillet.html   (5396 words)

  
 Townhall.com - Willet Creek
Appointed caretaker Sen. Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, inadvertantly stumbles across the scam when he proposes establishing a national boys camp on a patch of land near the head waters of Willet Creek in Terry Canyon.
This is right where the local Taylor political machine has bought up land in advance of the creation of the Willet Creek Dam by Congress.
Willet Creek is provided by an Arizona-based public affairs professional who does a lot of work with my state’s legislative leaders, governor and executive departments.
willetcreek.townhall.com   (222 words)

  
 Willet, Marinus - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
WILLET, MARINUS [Willet, Marinus], 1740-1830, American Revolutionary soldier, b.
Jamaica, N.Y. In the French and Indian War he was (1758) a member of the expeditions against Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Frontenac.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Willet, Marinus" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-willet-m1.html   (267 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/willetonline
WILLET (formerly known as CLEARVIEW) is a Rock Band out of Westminster, MD made up of brothers, Jeremy, Justin, and Jordan Willet.
The idea for WILLET (comprised of the 3 Willet brothers) began on a family trip to Florida while watching a CHEVELLE DVD in the backseat.
WILLET can be compared to the live show energy of STORY OF THE YEAR (guitar tosses, throws, and choreographed stunts), the “crowd pleasing anthems” of THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH, and the “radio-friendly” songs of SWITCHFOOT.
www.myspace.com /willetonline   (1059 words)

  
 Willet Accident Lawyer: Free Legal Services in New York (NY)
A nationally-recognized personal injury law firm, Weitz and Luxenberg is committed to helping clients win cases, get the compensation to which they’re entitled and get on with their lives.
Accident victims in Willet may be able to get compensation for their injuries, pain, and suffering with the help of an accident attorney.
People who have been injured in car accidents, construction accidents, slip and falls, work accidents, and other types of accidents resulting in injuries may be helped by Weitz and Luxenberg's legal help.
www.weitzlux.com /newyork/willetaccidentlawyer_63828.html   (424 words)

  
 Pastwords: Willet discusses antichrist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Andrew Willet (1562-162) Puritan divine; fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; took holy order 1585, Prebendary of Ely 1587; rector of Barley, 1599-1621; produced numerous works of biblical commentary and theology.
Willet was a man of uncommon reading, having digested the fathers, councils, ecclesiastical histories, the civil and canon law, and numerous writers of almost all descriptions.
Many of the auncient writers, as they living many years before the manifestation of Antichrist in the world, were deceived in these particulars; so also they were much out of the way in true understanding of other points belonging to this mysterie of iniquitie.
chi.gospelcom.net /pastwords/chl190.shtml   (11915 words)

  
 Lung Morphometry after Repetitive Antenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment in Preterm Sheep -- WILLET et al. 163 (6): 1437 -- ...
Willet KE, Gurrin L, Burton P, Lanteri CJ, Reese AC, Vij J, Matsumoto I, Jobe AH, Ikegami M, Polk D, Newnham J, Kohan R, Kelly R, Sly PD. Differing patterns of mechanical response to direct fetal hormone treatment.
Willet KE, Jobe AH, Ikegami M, Polk D, Newnham J, Kohan R, Gurrin L, Sly PD. Postnatal lung function after prenatal steroid treatment in sheep: effect of gender.
Willet KE, McMenamin P, Pinkerton KE, Ikegami M, Jobe AH, Gurrin L, Sly PD. Lung morphometry and collagen and elastin content: changes during normal development and following prenatal hormones in sheep.
www.ajrccm.org /cgi/content/full/163/6/1437   (4308 words)

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