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Alaska: Alaska State Bird

The Port of Brookings Harbor had a typical weekend – that is, if its typical weekend includes a community effort to save a young bald eagle.
, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Today is Monday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2006 with 76 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mars and Pluto.
FORT APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. -- A man in a dark shirt and hat emblazoned POLICE has raped 10 girls and a young woman after "arresting" them -- a string of attacks that has made people on the reservation suspicious of even the real officers investigating the case.
Nature hike, Oct. 10, 3:30 p.m., ages 8-10, National Wildlife Visitor Center, Powder Mill Road between the B/W Pkwy. and Md. 197, Laurel. Exploratory hike. Free, but reservations req'd. 301- 497-5887.
It's not too early to plan your ski getaway. Along with snagging early booking discounts, travelers will have better choice of availability when they book in advance.
TWO AMAZING BIRDS paid a visit to Sandy Hook in late September and both were flycatchers. The first -- a gray kingbird -- was the 10th state record and the second for Sandy Hook; the other was a Say's phoebe, the 15th record for the Garden State.
Never mind the first Tuesday in November. Every day from now to Nov. 7 is Election Day somewhere in America.
TACOMA -- State and federal authorities reported Tuesday that testing of migratory birds in Washington has turned up evidence of avian influenza this year but not the dreaded H5N1 virus.
State and federal officials on the lookout for avian influenza want all bird owners to participate in the regional disease surveillance program.

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