![]() Malheur Wildlife Refuge, the Militia and the Audubon Society Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bearīernd Heinrich and the Case of the Dead WoodpeckerĬome Along On a One-Day, Three-Stop Antarctic Wildlife AdventureĪntarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor What Does Catastrophic Molt Look Like on Elephant Seals and Penguins?įort Bliss Soldiers Protect a Pair of OwlsĪpril Fools' Day and the Stories Behind Eight Animal Hoaxesĥ0-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica How Much Do You Know About Air? An Interactive Quiz Migrating Songbird Fallout On Machias Seal Island (Guest Post By Lighthouse Keeper Ralph Eldridge) Q-and-A With Bernd Heinrich About "One Wild Bird at a Time" Little Blue Heron on the North Carolina Coast Maine on Mars! And a Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion LabĪmazing Acorn Woodpeckers: Packing 50,000 Nuts Into a Single Tree How the Historic Supermoon Looked from All 50 States Think Small: What Would You Do to Help Toads, Frogs and Salamanders? Guest Blog: Put Plastic in Its Place (Starting With Straws!) The Yellow Northern Cardinal, A Year Later The London track is expected to be the fastest Olympic cycling layout ever built. But during the Games, with 6,000 fans screaming (the Brits have a great track-cycling team, which will duel the Aussies for gold in a majority of events) the velodrome will be rockin' and riders will be flyin'. The turns are banked so steeply-42 degrees-that an average person would seemingly have trouble pedaling around them fast enough to keep from falling. When I toured the velodrome last fall with other members of the world press, London Olympic officials told us that 54 kilometers (33.5 miles) of pine strips and 350,000 nails went into the track, which was built by the world's foremost expert at such things, former Australian cyclist Ron Webb. You'll see the product of the nutcracker's work at this summer's London Olympics, where cyclists in the striking new velodrome will race laps on a 250-meter banked-turn oval made of thin strips of Siberian pine. That up-to-15-inch-long corvid cousin of the crow, raven and blue jay pecks open the cones on Siberian pines, scattering the seeds and propagating the trees whose wood makes the world's fastest cycling tracks. ![]() ![]() Olympic bike riders owe a debt of gratitude to the spotted nutcracker. ![]()
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