European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 29 2007 scene stars and stripes Page 23 endangered Turtle Sites Are taking off Leatherback sea flurries made headlines recently when an event called the great Turtle race began from Costa Rica As a Way to publicize the plight of the gentle creatures but that not the end of the Story the two week race is being tracked in real time on the web and there Are a Host of online resources that offer information about the critically endangered animals  the great Turtle race is on and school kids and workers in office pools around the world Are tuning in online at one Point it was Windy by a mile actually 18 Miles but Stephanie co Burtle Bilie and purple lightning were work ing hard to close the distance from the Lead turtles dizzying Pace of 4 Miles per hour they Are among the 11 tagged leatherbacks that Are being tracked by satellite As they make their annual 500mile migration from Costa Ricas Playa Grande their main Pacific nest ing area to the Galapagos islands their Progress can be watched online As a continuously updated map and Leader Board show their positions on their oceanic journeys you can cheer on your favorite Turtle by signing up for emails about its Progress the event runs through today Twenty years ago More than 1500 turtles nested at Playa Grande but that number had dwindled to Only 124 last year besides covering the race the site has information about the turtles which can grow to 7 feet Long and weigh 1 ton and what people can do to help save them there also Are related Sites it recommends including wow  the educational information resource Center has set up a Micro site contain ing Many lesson plans and student activities for teachers to use in conjunction with the race including downloads and printable items a Leatherback the races Mascot or Leatherback has his own Page Matthew a wildlife worker in French Guiana uses a scanner on a sea Turtle to get information from an implanted tag the ask or Turtle blog As part of the event the researcher who also the president of the Leatherback Trust cites two major threats to the creatures destruction of nesting areas and fishing which brings us to our final entry  watch Asp As part of its seafood watch program the Monterey Bay aquarium offers printable pocket size guides for Consumers to take with them to restau and blog at at last Check he ranks and food so the cd had been befriended by More than which Haye been Taio Reci for each 3000 my spacers who Haa left nearly Region of the country list which sea 500 comments Bio science prof Jim Spotila of Drexel University one of the races sponsors maintains foods Are brought to Market with the least harm being done to the turtles do you have a favorite web site or a question about How to find something on the internet Send an email to or go to Randy a Solas bog Early Birds Are tweet talkers q Why do Aii the Birds Start singing loudly a Good 45 minutes or so before Sunrise then Faff silent shortly after the Sun rises Susan Saunders a Susan first of All its important to know exactly what kind of peeps were squawking about Here after All you know me in Homer Simpson with a typewriter 1 know you youre a bed head with nutrition ugly suspicious breakfast habits but do we really know what goes on behind closed leaves in the intimacy of songbird nests songbirds have glad you steamy social lives that would make most of us Blush of now you drop the cold pizza and perk up that according to Bridget Stutch Bury author of the new Book silence of the songbirds Walker co about Birds disappearing Habi Tats songbirds live with their mates but both males and females sneak off with other lovers for what she refers to As Jeff elder Here Are my favorite words in this whole column on minute stands when it comes to Bird sex its not the size of the Wing its How you Flap it All this mating activity Means that songbirds prefer to nest in Little Bird neighbourhoods Stutch Bury says where there Able to sneak around a like in desperate housewives now that you understand that the Wren outside your window is Eva Longoria in feathers we can address today question Why All the predawn warbling Birds sing to intimidate rivals and impress females like Rock stars with beaks sound transmission is most efficient very Early in the morning when its Calm everything is still and quiet and the Treetop troubadours take advantage of the empty stage play free its also too dark during the predawn hours for Birds to find food so they can put All their efforts into singing unlike human Rock stars when the Sun comes up songbirds go to work finding food Stutchbury a biology professor at York University in Toronto writes in her hew Book that song Birds Are quickly losing their habitats the rain for ests and other disappearing nesting grounds Hurt them and so do City lights during migration most songbirds Fly at night and Are attracted to Bright lights which they think Are stars she wrote in an email millions each year crash into communication towers and City skyscrapers hey Rockin Robin see All those Robins hoppin around Eafin earthworm a Fredo out of your Yard the first Robins Are a sign of Spring right actually those Robins were Here All win Ter they were just huddled in Large flocks in the Woods where they can find food when pasta returns to the menu with warm weather they return to our Yards today fascinating fact about eight out of 10 americans 79 percent say that not reporting All of your income to the internal Revenue service is morally wrong Only adultery Drew More condemnation 88 percent deemed it morally wrong in a 2006 Pew research Center Survey in which people were asked to assess the moral dimensions or different types of Behaviours sixty one percent said drinking alcohol excessively was morally wrong while 50 percent said smok ing marijuana was today second fascinating fact heres Why you should never play 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