The alto flute, however, is a more graceful, slower-moving bird from the nearby lake that swings by now and then.

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Shapiro's group compared the sequences of a pigeon taken from an overpass in Utah and another bird living by a lake in Virginia.

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In western Honduras, the tropical coffee farm Finca el Paraiso, in the village of Los Naranjos on the western edge of Lago de Yojoa, has easy walking trails and is a fantastic base for boating and bird watching on the lake.

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The first stop for bird-watchers is Patagonia Lake State Park.

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The chicks will be sent to a facility in Lake Charles, where a surrogate bird will help "teach them their natural habits" so that they can eventually be returned to the wild, Ransonet said.

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Traditionalists point out that the Big Bird has been tied to the region ever since William Boeing built his first aircraft in his boathouse on a Seattle lake in 1916.

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