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    Tennessee Warbler

    Oreothlypis peregrina
    5 omnivore3
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    5 POINTS


    • Oreothlypis peregrina has a FLIGHT of 2.


    • Despite its common name, Oreothlypis peregrina neither breeds nor over-winters in the state of Tennessee.



    Cool, Warm
    Image by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/
    Jerry Oldenettel www.flickr.com/photos/7457894@N04

    The Tennessee Warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina, is a New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across Canada and the northern USA. It ismigratory, wintering in southern Central America and northern Colombia and Venezuela, with a few stragglers going as far south as Ecuador. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. This bird was named from a specimen collected in Tennessee where it may appear [...]

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  • card-name-9894

    Red Paper Wasp

    Polistes annularis
    4 omnivore2
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    3 POINTS

    • Polistes annularis has a MOVE of 2

    • Polistes annularis forms its papery nests in trees, shrubs and some buildings.
    Cool, Warm
    Image by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/
    Kittenwants www.flickr.com/people/kittenwants/

    Paper wasps are 3⁄4 to 1 inch (1.9 to 2.5 cm)-long wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct water-resistant nests made of gray or brown papery material. Paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, due to the distinctive design of their nests[1] [...]

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    White Tiger

    Panthera tigris
    8 carnivore4
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    6 POINTS

    • Panthera tigris has a MOVE of 2.

    • The white tiger is not a separate subspecies of tiger. Its white fur is the result of a genetic colour morph.
    Cool, Warm, Hot
    Image by Dafne-1337art www.dafneart.com/
    Anderson Mancini www.flickr.com/photos/ektogamat/

    White tigers are a color morph of any subspecies of tiger whose fur is white or almost white with black to light ash-grey stripes, though it is not a separate subspecies itself. To date, the only known white tigers have been from the Bengal tiger subspecies.[1] Compared to normal coloured tigers without the white gene, white tigers [...]

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    Marine Debris

    Event Card
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    PLAY: on 1 SPECIES card with Ocean or Fresh Water TERRAIN.


    EFFECT: The played SPECIES card is discarded.

    Image by Alexandria Neonakis alexneonakis.com/

    Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human created waste that has deliberately or accidentally become afloat in a lake, sea, ocean or waterway. Oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the centre of gyresand on coastlines,[1] frequently washing aground, when it is known as beach litter or tidewrack. Deliberate disposal of wastes at sea is called ocean dumping. Some seeming forms of marine debris, [...]

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  • card-name-10164

    Linnaeus Card

    Event Card
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    PLAY: can be played immediately for below effect and then discarded.


    EFFECT: When used, if a player can remember the latin name for an organism in his/her discard pile, then he/she can retrieve that card.

    Image by Alexander Roslin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus

    Carl Linnaeus (Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May[note 1] 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (help·info),[1] was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is [...]

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    Horned Puffin

    Fratercula corniculata
    5 carnivore3
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    Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives Works 2.0

    7 POINTS


    • Fratercula corniculata has a FLIGHT of 2.


    • Fratercula corniculata nest in bluffs of fractured rock or crevices in cliff faces near the shoreline.

     

    Cold, Cool
    Image by latyshoffa latyshoffa.deviantart.com/

    The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) is an auk, similar in appearance to the Atlantic Puffin; this bird’s bill is yellow at the base and red at the tip. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish. It nests in colonies, often with other auks. The yellow bill plate grows before the breeding season and is shed [...]

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