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they got their wish - an immature northern harrier decided to put on a show, appearing just above a stand of oaks to the north and flying slowly past them and off toward the south.

Birds commonly seen: Year-round, find pied-billed grebes, hooded mergansers, bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, Northern harriers, marsh wrens, American bitterns.

SALVAGE Out of the spruce grove a northern harrier stretches, long shadow of its body following like words written on snow, or what the snow says under the snow.

Scientists consider many species among these to be threatened or in need of special protection, including: Peregrine Falcon, Red-tailed Hawk, Least Bittern, Great Blue Heron, Northern Pintail, Blue-Winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, American Widgeon, Northern Harrier, Harris' Hawk, Short-eared Owl, Cinnamon Teal, Redhead Duck, Least Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpipe and Wilson's Phalarope.

Roseate spoonbills, heron species, black-necked stilts, cormorants, northern harriers, white-tailed hawks, and owls (short-eared, barn and great-horned) are common.

A northern harrier flapping wildly but seemingly stuck in midair.

This is one of the few places in the Northeast where you can still find the Northern harrier and short-eared owl, and plant species such as the bushy rockrose and Saint Andrews' cross," says Karen Beattie, ecologist with the Nantucket Conservation Foundation (which has acquired 8,700 acres since its inception in 1963).

In Ventura County, birds doing well include the starling, mockingbird and Black Phoebes; birds suffering from loss of habitat include wetlands dwellers and raptors that need large blocks of open space such as the burrowing owl, the red-tailed hawk and the Northern harrier, chapter members said.