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Notable blooms include the spring ephemerals — trillium, lady slipper orchids, crested dwarf iris, columbine, bleeding heart, and violets, to name a few — and the summer arrival of red cardinal flowers, purple-fringed orchids, and black-eyed Susans.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
Fast, acrobatic, and beautiful, wood ducks are a favorite among hunters—both in the field and on the table
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With its crested head and multi-colored plumage, the wood duck lays a claim to the title of America’s prettiest duck.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
Other conservation efforts have included protecting the rainforest habitats of cotton-top tamarins in Colombia through Proyecto Titi, repatriating white rhinos to Uganda, and reintroducing Puerto Rican crested toads back to the wild.
—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
New Caledonian crested geckos, believed extinct until 1994 and jeopardized today by wildfires and invasive predators, became well established in captivity.
—Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
An Australasian crested grebe, also known as a pūteketeke bird.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
—oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
The team took creative liberties, too, of course, including adding an expanding, rattling frill for the crested predator dilophosaurus, which devours a hapless Wayne Knight.
—Asher Elbein, Vulture, 11 July 2023
Hawaii’s chain of volcanic islands, which host more endangered species than any other state, are home to some notable endangered species, including the Hawaiian petrel, also called the ʻuaʻu, and the crested honeycreeper, or 'Ākohekohe.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
Fast, acrobatic, and beautiful, wood ducks are a favorite among hunters—both in the field and on the table
|
Hunting
SHARE
With its crested head and multi-colored plumage, the wood duck lays a claim to the title of America’s prettiest duck.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
Other conservation efforts have included protecting the rainforest habitats of cotton-top tamarins in Colombia through Proyecto Titi, repatriating white rhinos to Uganda, and reintroducing Puerto Rican crested toads back to the wild.
—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
New Caledonian crested geckos, believed extinct until 1994 and jeopardized today by wildfires and invasive predators, became well established in captivity.
—Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
An Australasian crested grebe, also known as a pūteketeke bird.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
—oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
The team took creative liberties, too, of course, including adding an expanding, rattling frill for the crested predator dilophosaurus, which devours a hapless Wayne Knight.
—Asher Elbein, Vulture, 11 July 2023
Hawaii’s chain of volcanic islands, which host more endangered species than any other state, are home to some notable endangered species, including the Hawaiian petrel, also called the ʻuaʻu, and the crested honeycreeper, or 'Ākohekohe.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
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“Crested.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crested. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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