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Images (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Layne Kennedy (Measuring beak of ovenbird); © Mark Godfrey/TNC(Beetles collected during BioBlitz); © TNC (Cool Green Science); © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Yellow warbler caught in a mist net for purpose of banding); © photos.com (Brain coral damaged by bleaching)