Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actual numbers of birds in Cambridge may not have changed much in recent years, but the composition of the population has. At the turn of the century, some five dozen species nested here, including 16 varieties of warblers and vireos. Except for the unsprayed area around Fresh Pond Reservoir, none of these warblers and vireos regularly nest here now. Only half a dozen native species next here in any numbers today. The commonest birds-the starlings, English sparrows, and pigeons-were all imported from Europe during the nineteenth century. Insecticides may account for some of this lack of variety...
...howitzer as if it were a squirrel rifle and barked instructions. The first round was wide of the mark. So was the second. Using "Kentucky windage," Vang Pao made another adjustment. The third round scored a direct hit. Later, he knocked out an enemy machine-gun nest with the same tactic...
...biggest U.S. project is the $1,800,000 grasslands study, which has 80 scientists working in 400 counties between the Mississippi and the Rockies. Besides trailing antelopes, they are studying such seeming minutiae as the relationship between cows and lark buntings. The little birds nest on the range in saltbush, a plant that cows find delectable. As the supply of saltbush is eaten, the lark bunting population declines. Without the birds to eat grasshoppers, the insects begin to proliferate and compete with cows for grass. In the end, the cows' survival is at stake. With basic information about...
...range is almost two octaves, and her appeal spans all generations. Glenn Gould, the pianist and a Clark aficionado, says that she is "in many ways the complete synthesis of the American teen-ager's scramble from the parental nest." Of course, at an increasingly matronly 37, she will have to go beyond such material as Downtown and I Know a Place. These days she is trying to emulate her idol, Piaf. "She didn't just sing," recalls Petula. "She pulled her insides out. She got involved about people going crazy, about death...
...rest of the Harvard lineup will remain the same, with Faller, Rayner, Scanlon, and Abbott favored in the heavyweight bouts. Abbott, who won by forfeit Saturday against Columbia, will face the ??nest test of the meet when he comes up against Milea...