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St. Simons Park marker St. Simons Park. Just north of the village on St. Simons Island off Mallery Street is a park of oak trees named St. Simons Park. On the southern edge of the oaks, along a narrow lane, is a low earthen mound where 30 Timucuan Native Americans are buried.
The brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia. This list of birds of Georgia includes species documented in the U.S. state of Georgia and accepted by the Checklist and Records Committee of the Georgia Ornithological Society (GOSRC). As of August 2020, there are 427 species definitively included in the official list.
St. Simons Island is the largest of the Golden Isles, with a permanent population of 12,743 as of the 2010 census. Reachable via the F. J. Torras Causeway, the Island is a tourist destination for its beaches, water sports, boating and fishing, golf, nature trails, historical landmarks, shopping, restaurants and nightlife.
Stallings Island is a unique 16 acre archeological and ecological preserve with history dating back almost 5,000 years. Its name comes from the Stallings Culture and its inhabitants known for the ...
The pigeon could eat and digest 100 g (3.5 oz) of acorns per day. [79] At the historic population of three billion passenger pigeons, this amounted to 210,000,000 L (55,000,000 US gal) of food a day. [54] The pigeon could regurgitate food from its crop when more desirable food became available. [43]
The Torresian imperial pigeon is a large plump pigeon, 38-44 centimetres (15-17.5 inches) in length, [4] and with a 45 cm (18 in) wingspan. It is entirely white or pale cream , apart from the black flight feathers ( remiges ), part of the tail ( rectrices ) and spots on the undertail coverts . [ 4 ]
The young birds' lack of a white tail is a signal of their immaturity clearly visible to conspecifics – to an adult Nicobar pigeon, it is obvious at a glance which flockmembers are neither potential mates, nor potential competitors for mates, nor old enough to safely guide a flock from one island to another. [13]
The Pacific imperial pigeon, Pacific pigeon, Pacific fruit pigeon or lupe (Ducula pacifica) is a widespread pigeon species in the family Columbidae.It is found in American Samoa, the Cook Islands, the smaller islands of eastern Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, the smaller satellite islands of Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands.