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	2500 yr old birds nest still being used

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6-17-2009 2:30 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a072cfbd-405a-4930-a9f6-3334538e4dfe/0DD91A71-3070-42DD-9B24-EAED32114BC4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/" href="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/" style="font-size: 11px;">content2.clipmarks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content2.clipmarks.com/img/A2753836-7FA6-4FC3-9C9B-B097032D91F0" alt="Gyrfalcon chicks in a nest" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><DIV class="cap">Good for generation after generation</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><B>A 2,500-year-old bird's nest has been discovered on a cliff in Greenland.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><P>The nesting site is still continually used by gyrfalcons, the world's largest species of falcon, and is the oldest raptor nest ever recorded. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><P>Three other nests, each over 1,000 years old, have also been found, one of which contains feathers from a bird that lived more than 600 years ago. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><P>However, ornithologists fear climate change may soon drive the birds from these ancient nesting sites. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><P>Gyrfalcons live circumpolar to the Arctic. The birds range in colour from being almost exclusively white in Greenland to usually black in Labrador in Canada. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><P>Like many falcons, they do not build nests out of sticks and twigs, but typically lay eggs in bowl-shaped depressions they scrape into existing ledges or old nests made by other birds such as ravens. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content2.clipmarks.com/img/C751E1A4-EC9B-4DA1-B816-66C6CD587207" alt="1000 year old gyrfalcon nest site in Greenland" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/21B269AE-28C5-4080-A4E2-DC71C3C25B38/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content2.clipmarks.com/img/B51A9A07-8535-4DC4-ACC4-2E0BC97DF8C0" alt="An adult gyrfalcon with white plumage" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0DD91A71-3070-42DD-9B24-EAED32114BC4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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