It s as vulnerable as the great spotted kiwi, but gets nowhere near the same attention.
A beleaguered shorebird colony on Wellington Harbour has had a turn of fortune thanks to understanding cat owners, a monitoring group says. In previous years, the Eastbourne banded dotterel colony has been plagued with cat problems – last year a single fledgling survived after a tabby was caught on camera raiding nests throughout the breeding season. The year before not a single chick survived. Parker Jones, co-ordinator from the Mainland Island Restoration Operation (MIRO), said the 2020-2021 breeding season had given volunteers a boost in confidence with the survival of three fledglings from 12 nests.
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Sixty years ago three out of four switches failed to do their job. If that last one had failed as well, Goldsboro would be a crater today and New Bern would probably have giant ants and three-eyed people.
It was around midnight on January 23, 1961 when a B-52G Stratofortress, based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base was doing a mid-air refueling over the Atlantic when the tanker noticed the B-52 had a fuel leak.
We’re talking a major fuel leak, here. They were ordered to stay out to sea until most of the fuel was gone then head for home, but the pilot reported they had lost 37,000 pounds of fuel in three minutes. I never knew there was anything big enough to hold 37,000 pounds of fuel. They were told to head for home, pronto.
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