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DDE related eggshell thinning is considered a major reason for the decline of the bald eagle, brown pelican, peregrine falcon, and osprey.
Through most of its range, the brown pelican is an unmistakable bird.
Other animals in the park include Island Scrub Jay, harbor seal, California sea lion, island fox, spotted skunk, island night lizard, barn owl, American kestrel, horned lark and meadowlark and California brown pelican.
Several endangered species ( mostly associated with the Napa Sonoma Marsh ) present include California clapper rail ( Rallus longirostris ), California Black Rail ( Laterallus jamaicensis ), California brown pelican ( Pelicanus occudentalis ), California freshwater shrimp ( Syncaris pacifica ), Salt marsh harvest mouse ( Reithrodontomys raviventris ), Suisun Shrew ( Sorex ornatus sinuosus ), Sacramento splittail ( Pogonichtys macrolepidotus ).
Some have argued that the recovery of DDT-threatened species such as the bald eagle, brown pelican and peregrine falcon should be attributed to the 1972 congressional ban on DDT rather than the Endangered Species Act, however, the listing of these species as endangered was a substantial cause of Congress instituting the ban and many non-DDT oriented actions were taken on their behalf under the Endangered Species Act ( i. e. captive breeding, habitat protection, and protection from disturbance ).
Endangered species that are found in the bay include the California brown pelican, California clapper rail, and salt marsh harvest mouse.
Of these animals, one federally endangered species, the brown pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis ) and one threatened species, the white-cheeked pintail ( Anas bahamensis ) were observed.
Partly due to increased nesting and propagation of the brown pelicans on Gaillard Island, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped the species from the state ’ s endangered species list, and in 1998, the brown pelican was removed from the federal endangered species list.
The next morning, Kim is on the beach when Pete, Porter's pet brown pelican, comes running up to her, almost as if asking her to follow him.
The children wear almost-trademark brown uniforms with the orange pelican logo and are expected to be well groomed.
Several types of birds also live at the beach such as brown pelican, great blue heron, snowy egret, and several other species.

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* Flo and Ebb ( voiced by Kath Soucie and Jim Cummings ) – Two brown chinese alligator criminals who first appear in the episode " Beached ".

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Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.
Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.
-- An unusual flavor can be achieved by marinating the franks in French dressing or a mixture of honey, lemon juice and brown sugar prior to the picnic.
Macrophages laden with brown pigment were seen in some of the alveoli, and the intima of some of the small arteries was thickened by fibrous tissue.
The liver weighed 2,090 gm., was brown in color, and the cut surface was mottled by irregular pale areas.
This green silicate may give rise by alteration to a brown iron oxide ( limonite ), producing a rusty appearance on the outside of the agate-nodule.
Even more divergent are American stir-fry dishes inspired by Chinese food, that may contain brown rice instead of white, or those with grated cheese ; milk products are almost always absent from traditional Chinese food.
While the brown bear's range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN with a total population of approximately 200, 000.
The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English, based on the name of the bear in History of Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton, from Middle Dutch bruun or bruyn, meaning brown ( the color ).
The breast is an apocrine gland that produces milk to feed an infant child ; for which the nipple of the breast is centred in ( surrounded by ) an areola ( nipple-areola complex, NAC ), the skin color of which varies from pink to dark brown, and has many sebaceous glands.
Green and brown versus pink and white, are played by the same player or pair.
The coat has dark blotches or patches ( which can be orange, chestnut, brown or nearly black on color ) separated by light hair ( usually white or cream in color ).
These brown powders reduced burning rate even further by using as little as 2 percent sulfur and using charcoal made from rye straw that had not been completely charred, hence the brown color.
* Heteropodatoxin is produced by Heteropoda venatoria ( brown huntsman spider or laya ) and blocks potassium channels.
The corpse, was 16 – 18 feet long and weighed up to 1. 5 tonnes, described by the Press Association as having " a bear's head and a brown scaly body with clawlike fins.
Introduced fish species such as Carp, Gambusia, weather loach, redfin perch and brown trout and rainbow trout have also had serious negative effects on native fish, while Carp have contributed to environmental degradation of the Murray River and tributaries by destroying aquatic plants and permanently raising turbidity.
" The production of napalm was first entrusted to Nuodex Products, and by the middle of April 1942 they had developed a brown, dry powder that was not sticky by itself, but when mixed with gasoline turned into an extremely sticky and flammable substance.
The blue light emitted by the brightener compensates for the diminishing blue of the treated material and changes the hue away from yellow or brown and toward white.
* Heironimus says he was told by his brother Howard that Patterson claimed he manufactured the suit from a " real dark brown " horse hide.
Typically, the build-up of a natural pearl consists of a brown central zone formed by columnar calcium carbonate ( usually calcite, sometimes columnar aragonite ) and a yellowish to white outer zone consisting of nacre ( tabular aragonite ).
Further, some clades of brown bear, as assessed by their mtDNA, are more closely related to polar bears than to other brown bears, meaning that the polar bear would not be a true species according to some species concepts.

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Vegemite ( ) is a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract.
Several herding breeds, particularly those with a blue merle coat color ( such as Australian Shepherds and Border Collies ) may show well-defined blue areas within a brown iris as well as separate blue and darker eyes.
The adult Australian Magpie is a fairly robust bird ranging from 37 to 43 cm ( 14. 5 – 17 in ) in length, with distinctive black and white plumage, gold brown eyes and a solid wedge-shaped bluish-white and black bill.
For example, the Asian Koels breeding in India have black offspring to resemble their crow hosts, whereas in the Australian Koels the chicks are brown like the honeyeater hosts.
The primary typological division in Australian languages: Pama – Nyungan languages ( tan ) and non-Pama – Nyungan languages ( brown and grey ).
South Australian soft drink manufacturer Woodroofe produces " Sno-Top ", a brown creaming soda drink.
Non-native species present include the Australian brown quail.
The introduced Australian common brushtail possum ( Trichosurus vulpecula ) and introduced species of rats — mainly the ship or black rat ( Rattus rattus ) but also the kiore or Polynesian rat ( Rattus exulans ) and brown rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) — have significantly reduced the amount of fruit available for pigeons and other native birds and also prey on eggs and nestlings.
The brown fur seal ( Arctocephalus pusillus ), also known as the Cape fur seal, South African fur seal and the Australian fur seal is a species of fur seal.
* Bites from certain venomous snakes, most notably the black mamba, kraits, Australian brown snakes, coral snakes, tiger snakes, taipans, death adders, and some of the more toxic species of cobra.
Australian hermit crabs are light brown to pale brown in colour, with two dark ovals on the front of the head.
The main feed is annual grasses known as Flinders grass, which grow rapidly on the ( by Australian standards ) fertile grey or brown cracking clay soils after rain between November and March.
The South Australian cobbler, Gymnapistes marmoratus, often just called " cobbler " in Australia, is a brown coloured fish that lives in estuaries in southern Australia, both on the eastern ( New South Wales ) and western ( Western Australia-near Perth ) coasts.
In the Australian deposits, chrysoprase occurs as veins and nodules with brown goethite and other iron oxides in the magnesite-rich saprolite below an iron and silica cap.
Adult bush rats are smaller than the Australian swamp rat, ( Rattus lutreolus ), and in addition, the bush rat's foot pads are a pink colour, whereas the swamp rat's foot pads are dark brown.
Type IIa diamond can be colored pink, red, or brown due to structural anomalies arising through plastic deformation during crystal growth — these diamonds are rare ( 1. 8 % of gem diamonds ), but constitute a large percentage of Australian production.
The firm uses native Australian hardwoods, particularly jarrah, sheoak, wandoo and brown mallet for the drums they manufacture.
A small, nuggety man with broad shoulders, pink complexion and intense brown eyes, Worrall was one of Australia's great all-round sports people of the nineteenth century, and was involved in Australian football and cricket at the elite level for many decades.
* The genus Pseudonaja, Australian brown snakes
* The species Elapognathus minor, the Australian short-nosed, or little brown, snake
* The species Pseudechis australis, the Australian mulga, or king brown, snake
A ' creamy with dark points ' would be a buckskin, whilst ' Taffy ' is the Australian term for what is sometimes called ' chocolate silver ', or a brown coat with pale silvery mane and tail.

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