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Headed out<br> New Mexico picture - The rangers call the daily migrations from the ponds to feeding fields in the morning and from fields to ponds in the evening, the fly in-fly out. It is necessary because, if the birds stayed in the fields overnight, they would be easy prey for the critters that feed on them such as coyotes, bobcats, an occasional cougar, weasels, and eagles.
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The rangers call the daily migrations from the ponds to feeding fields in the morning and from fields to ponds in the evening, the fly in-fly out. It is necessary because, if the birds stayed in the fields overnight, they would be easy prey for the critters that feed on them such as coyotes, bobcats, an occasional cougar, weasels, and eagles.
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