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Chat - Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Topic Started: Feb 11 2009, 12:42 AM (2,496 Views)
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. . . :bday: acandzoey/Alison :bday:
:bday: Hope you have a wonderful day! :bday:
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Eaglepedia Revisited:

February 28, 2008

Part III

* albumen is:
--------90% water & 10% protein
--------the embryo's water supply, but also serves as a 'shock-absorber' to help protect the embryo
--------buffers embryo from sudden changes in temperature

* shell membranes are:
--------attached to the shell are two membranes, the inner and outer shell membranes. They protect the egg from bacterial invasion and help prevent rapid evaporation of moisture from the egg.

* shell:
--------protects the embryo
--------contains thousands of pores (see diagram below) that permit gas exchange
--------generally white in cavity-nesters & colored and patterned in open nesters (for camouflage)
--------color is added to the eggshell from pigments secreted by cells in the wall of the uterus

http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/avianreproduction.html

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Keratin fibers from the outer shell membrane can be seen above, attached to the
calcium carbonate crystals that make up the main shell structure. (keratin is like our fingernails)

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Thousands of tiny pores like the one pictured above, cover the shell, providing a passage for gas exchange.

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DISCLAIMER: Information here has been gathered in good faith from the internet and cannot be guaranteed to be totally accurate.
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And being Wednesday - it's update day!

The Santa Rosa update has been posted by Cedrick - did you see it yet? If not click on the photo below!

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acandzoey/Alison enjoy your super special day

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Make A New Friend Day

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OK things to do
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an eagle fix - 2007 IWS Tour

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Posted Image ACANDZOEY/ALISON :bday:

:bday: HAVE A VERY SPECIAL DAY :bday:
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:^: ^"^ :<<>>: Posted Image :<<>>: ^"^ :^:

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PROUD NORFOLK :<<>>: INCUBATING............................................BLACKWATER :<<>>: ............................

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OKLAHOMA :<<>>: ..................................................................NCTC :<<>>: ............................

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MAINE II :<<>>: ......................................................................CALTRANS :<<>>: ..
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Hey All ! ^"^ :<<>>: :soar:
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snagged from IWS Update 2006

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Carole, an Oklahoma eagle! I'm glad the tornadoes yesterday didn't damage their nest.

Happy Birthday, Alison!
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Carole, an Oklahoma eagle! I'm glad the tornadoes yesterday didn't damage their nest.


Hi Robin, so good to see you on the forum, I miss you big time. Here's the link to the Oklahoma nest.....

http://www.suttoncenter.org/eaglecam.html
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SQUISH FIX..........

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its nice that the Ok nest is OK! "Sooner and Okee" look very dedicated to their nest so far.
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An interesting tidbit my uncle sent to me in email. George...am sure you will be interested in reading this since you are a history buff :)

The verification site located at the bottom of this fascinating story is a blog out of the Wall Street Journel.


Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape.. Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing not only where stuff was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and shelter.

Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.

Someone in MI-5 (similar to America 's OSS ) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever.

At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort.

By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war.

Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.

As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add:
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass
2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!

British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square.

Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets.. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war. The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony.
It's always nice when you can play that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' card!


Story verification: http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/1...ith-real-money/



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