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DFO’s Strange Animals — Long-Billed Syndrome


Colleen Handle/AP Photo/USGS Alaska Science Center

In this undated photo provided by the USGS Alaska Science Center shows a black-capped chickadee, the most affected birds of "long billed syndrome". "Long-billed syndrome” has been recorded in about 160 birds by a Skagit County researcher, mostly in Western Washington and southern British Columbia and mostly since 2000.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.