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Killdeer—Bird in the Spotlight

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Explore the Killdeer and 700+ other bird species at All About Birds: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/killdeer/overview

Meet the Killdeer, North America’s most familiar shorebird! In under three minutes, discover the basics of this common North American bird, how to identify it, what it eats, where it lives, and how it nests.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a membership institution dedicated to interpreting and conserving the earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.

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The Filomena M. D’Agostino Foundation

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The Filomena M. D’Agostino Foundation (also styled Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation Corp.) is a private grantmaking foundation based in New York City. Established as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization in 1990 (EIN 13-3548660), it supports charitable, educational, scientific, and related purposes, with a primary focus on the New York metropolitan area.

It operates as a private foundation funded by investment returns rather than ongoing public contributions, maintaining substantial assets while distributing roughly $1.4–1.5 million annually in grants.

Namesake and historical roots

The foundation honors Filomen D’Agostino Greenberg (often called Fil or Filomen M. D’Agostino), a pioneering figure in law and … Continue

Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: landscapes, the Congo River, and conservation challenges

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, covering 2,344,858 square kilometers (905,355 square miles). Straddling the equator, most of its territory lies within the broad Congo River Basin—a vast, low-lying, plateau-shaped depression that slopes gently westward and is blanketed by tropical rainforest and threaded by an extensive network of rivers.

The illustration above depicts the outline map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo filled with the design of its national flag, featuring a bright blue background, a yellow five-pointed star positioned in the upper left portion, and a bold red diagonal … Continue