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Derrick Z. Jackson

A mixed season for N.E. birds

By Derrick Z. Jackson
August 4, 2007

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ERROL, N.H. THEY WERE siblings for only a moment. Only two loon chicks hatched this summer at Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge out of 20 nesting territories on the 7-mile-long lake. In the last two weeks since I took their photographs, one of them disappeared. The surviving chick is struggling. It is wheezing, said refuge biologist Laurie Wunder. (Full article: 368 words)

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