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Air Berlin has announced that it will launch non-stop flights to the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, for the first time starting with the 2008-09 winter schedule. The airline said that a weekly flight to the Azores will take off every Monday via Nuremberg, Germany, from November 3, 2008 onwards. Feeder flights to Nuremberg are available from 12 German cities and also from Vienna, Austria.
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The St. Helena Plover (Charadrius sanctaehelenae), locally known as the Wirebird due to its thin legs, is a small wader endemic to the island of Saint Helena. Kittlitz's Plover is the St. Helena bird's closest relative. The bird was first mentioned in 1638, and is the national bird of Saint Helena, featured on the island's coat of arms. This plover is resident all year on the open areas of Saint Helena, and it is thought that the widespread deforestation on the island, while generally harmful...
