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• There are over 600 spices of buttercups.

• Cattle do not eat the buttercups because of their burning juice.

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• The American Goldfinch ranges in South Canada during the summer months.

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• Most pink primrose flowers only open in the evening or early morning. • The flower can be as small as 2.5cm.

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• The oldest wild Chickadee lived to be twelve and a half years old! • The “chicka-dee-dee” is one of the most complex vocalizations in all of the animal kingdom.

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• Norther Flickers use a drumming technique to attract their mates. • A group of Flickers is called a “guttering,” a “Peterson,” or a “menorah.”

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• Wolves feed on medium to large sized ungulates, marmots, hares, badgers, foxes, polecats, ground squirrels, mice, hamsters, voles, and other rodents. Sometimes they will even eat lizards and toads.

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• Buttercups are native to the Northern Hemisphere.

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• The Wilson’s Warbler was named after the American ornithologist Alexander Wilson. Ornithologists study birds.

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• All the European Starlings in North America are descendants of 100 birds set loose in New York’s Central Park in the early 1890s.