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  	<title>USGS Multimedia Gallery for Set: Birds</title>
 	<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/</link>
	<language>en-us</language>
	<description>A list of photography and images from the U.S. Geological Survey's Multimedia Gallery (http://gallery.usgs.gov).</description>
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		<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/</link>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Eskimo Volunteers Helping with Banding]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Two Yupik Eskimo students from Chevak, Alaska holding a tundra swan cygnet. These student volunteers were helping with an annual USGS waterfowl banding program along the Kashunuk River near the Bering Sea coast in western Alaska.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	Craig Ely
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_14_2009_pUKw5BAnm2_09_14_2009_0</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_14_2009_pUKw5BAnm2_09_14_2009_0</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>biology</category>

				<category>waterfowl</category>

				<category>cygnet</category>

				<category>eskimo</category>

				<category>volunteers</category>

				<category>banding</category>

				<category>research</category>

		</item>



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		  <title><![CDATA[Flock of birds]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[A large flock of birds, mostly egrets, resting and flying along a canal on Highway 
833 (a short drive north off of I-75 (Alligator Alley)).]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	hhenkel - at - usgs.gov (Heather Henkel)
				
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_17_2009_uYPc6GFrr4_06_17_2009_2</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_17_2009_uYPc6GFrr4_06_17_2009_2</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>plants</category>

				<category>aquatic</category>

				<category>vegetation</category>

				<category>freshwater</category>

				<category>ecosystems</category>

				<category>wildlife</category>

				<category>animals</category>

				<category>birds</category>

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		  <title><![CDATA[Akiapolaau Honeycreeper]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[While the susceptibility of endangered akiapolaau honeycreepers to avian malaria is unknown, it is likely very high given their current restriction to the highest elevation forests on the island of Hawaii.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	Carter Atkinson
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_0</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_0</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>NR2009_05_22</category>

				<category>AkiapolaauHoneycreeper</category>

				<category>AvianMalaria</category>

				<category>AvianPox</category>

				<category>birds</category>

				<category>avian</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>disease</category>

				<category>genetics</category>

				<category>wildlife</category>

				<category>honeycreepers</category>

				<category>endangered</category>

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		  <title><![CDATA[Amakihi Honeycreeper]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[During the past decade populations of this honeycreeper have begun to rebound at lower elevations on most of the main Hawaiian Islands, in spite of high prevalence of infection with avian malaria.  Natural selection for resistance to avian malaria is the leading explanation for this rebound and recent genetic studies indicate that these populations are genetically distinct from their higher elevation counterparts.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	Dennis LaPointe
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_1</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_1</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>NR2009_05_22</category>

				<category>AmakihiHoneycreeper</category>

				<category>AvianMalaria</category>

				<category>AvianPox</category>

				<category>DiseaseResistance</category>

				<category>adaptation</category>

				<category>birds</category>

				<category>avian</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>disease</category>

				<category>genetics</category>

				<category>wildlife</category>

				<category>honeycreepers</category>

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		  <title><![CDATA[Akepa Honeycreeper]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[While the susceptibility of endangered akepa honeycreepers to avian malaria is unknown, it is likely very high given their current restriction to the highest elevation forests on the island of Hawaii.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	Carter Atkinson
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_2</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_2</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>NR2009_05_22</category>

				<category>AkepaHoneycreeper</category>

				<category>AvianMalaria</category>

				<category>AvianPox</category>

				<category>birds</category>

				<category>avian</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>disease</category>

				<category>genetics</category>

				<category>wildlife</category>

				<category>honeycreepers</category>

				<category>endangered</category>

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		  <title><![CDATA[Iiwi Honeycreeper]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[While still common at higher elevations, iiwi are extremely susceptible to avian malaria.  Mortality is as high as 90% after exposure to a single infective mosquito bite under laboratory conditions.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	Carter Atkinson
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_3</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_22_2009_h41Og66Fea_05_22_2009_3</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>NR2009_05_22</category>

				<category>IiwiHoneycreeper</category>

				<category>AvianMalaria</category>

				<category>AvianPox</category>

				<category>birds</category>

				<category>avian</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>disease</category>

				<category>genetics</category>

				<category>wildlife</category>

				<category>honeycreepers</category>

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		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Card - 1937]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior.

This card: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
					unknown
			
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_0</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_0</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>migration</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

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		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Card - 1939]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior.

This card: Eastern Robin]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
					unknown
			
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_1</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_1</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>migration</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



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		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Card - 1933]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior.

This card: Ivory-billed Woodpecker]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
					unknown
			
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_2</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_2</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>migration</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



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		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Card - 1921]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior.

This card: Bald Eagle]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
					unknown
			
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_3</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_3</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>migration</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



		<item>
		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Card - 1933]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior.

This card: Northern Bald Eagle]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
					unknown
			
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_4</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_4</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>migration</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



		<item>
		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Card - 1922]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior.

This card: Chimney Swift]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
					unknown
			
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_5</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_5</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>migration</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



		<item>
		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Card - 1939]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior.

This card: Purple Martin]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
					unknown
			
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_6</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_b27Iam4YXs_03_18_2009_6</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>migration</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



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		  <title><![CDATA[Female Broad-Tailed Hummingbird]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[A female broad-tailed hummingbird visiting a flower near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	David Inouye
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_aeu2XKj87R_03_18_2009_0</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_18_2009_aeu2XKj87R_03_18_2009_0</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>biology</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>birds</category>

				<category>environment</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

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		  <title><![CDATA[Little Blue Heron Siblings]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Little blue herons are a species recorded in the historical bird phenology cards.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	ligl - at - usgs.gov (L.D. Igl)
				
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_u05Ct21SRn_03_17_2009_0</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_u05Ct21SRn_03_17_2009_0</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>biology</category>

				<category>ecology</category>

				<category>environment</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>BlueHeron</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>birds</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



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		  <title><![CDATA[Yellow-Headed Blackbird Fledgling.]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Yellow-headed blackbird fledgling. This species is also recorded in the Bird Phenology Program cards.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	ligl - at - usgs.gov (L.D. Igl)
				
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_w06Evi2UTo_03_17_2009_0</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_w06Evi2UTo_03_17_2009_0</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>biology</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>environment</category>

				<category>ecology</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>birds</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



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		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Cards]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Volunteers Derek Smith (white shirt) and Reuben Anderson sort through migration cards in the Bird Phenology Program Office.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	jzelt - at - usgs.gov (Jessica Zelt)
				
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_dIYk0ONba7_03_17_2009_0</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_dIYk0ONba7_03_17_2009_0</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>biology</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



		<item>
		  <title><![CDATA[Bird Migration Cards]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[North American Bird Phenology Program Coordinator Jessica Zelt working with old migration bird cards.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	jzelt - at - usgs.gov (Jessica Zelt)
				
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_dIYk0ONba7_03_17_2009_1</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_17_2009_dIYk0ONba7_03_17_2009_1</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>biology</category>

				<category>ClimateChange</category>

				<category>phenology</category>

				<category>BirdCards</category>

				<category>NR2009_03_18</category>

		</item>



		<item>
		  <title><![CDATA[Bird-Banding Oystercatcher]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Alaska Unit master's student Julie Morse bands a black oystercatcher.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	Ron Niebrugge
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/367</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/367</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>tracking</category>

				<category>BirdBanding</category>

		</item>



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		  <title><![CDATA[Sage-Grouse Population Model]]></title>
		  <description><![CDATA[Changes to greater sage-grouse distribution in the American West predicted by a new scientific model based on extensive study of sage-grouse range contraction. &#034;Likely secure populations" indicates areas where sage-grouse are present and currently stable. "Currently extirpated" indicates areas where sage-grouse are now locally extinct, as the model predicted. "Potential recolonization" indicates areas where populations are known to be locally extinct, but based on the model, landscape conditions are most similar to areas where sage-grouse currently persist. "At-risk populations" predicts absence where populations are known to occur. These habitats are most similar to areas where sage-grouse have already disappeared; therefore, existing populations are likely at risk of local extinction.]]></description>
		  <author>
		  	
		  </author>
		  <link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/160</link>
		  <guid>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/160</guid>
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		  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
				<category>sage-grouse</category>

				<category>map</category>

				<category>population</category>

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