
River Corridors as Bird Lifelines: What Puffins and Waxwings Teach Us
A Tufted Puffin rides Pacific swells off the Oregon coast. A Bohemian Waxwing strips mountain-ash berries from a roadside tree in Alberta. Neither bird
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A Tufted Puffin rides Pacific swells off the Oregon coast. A Bohemian Waxwing strips mountain-ash berries from a roadside tree in Alberta. Neither bird

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