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Turkey vultures flock to Orlando, Florida's, two tallest buildings every winter. NPR's Renee Montagne speaks with an employee of one of those buildings about the strange birds. To see the turkey vulture, click here.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Michael Williamson of the Washington Post, who was named the Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers' Association. (5:51) View some of Williams' photos.

California is in the midst of a boom in power plant construction. Most of the plants are in rural Kern county. Tamara Keith reports.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Kari Watkins, executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial. President Bush is scheduled to speak today at the opening of the new museum, the third component of the National Memorial.

The Flint Hills in central Kansas are covered by tallgrass prairies that once spread across much of the Midwest. Now 11,000 acres of that land are being set aside as a national preserve. Matt Hackworth of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.

Seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt died yesterday in a car crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that a new study has found that some types of fisheries may actually lead to a net loss of available food. The report bases its findings on the fact than some types of fish, including salmon, eat four times as much food as they eventually yield.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports Israeli troops have been demolishing Palestinian homes and razing fruit and olive groves near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip in a bid to stop Palestinian attacks on the settlers. There have been loud complaints from human rights activists and others.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says President George W. Bush finds himself in a tougher spot than his father was in when it comes to dealing with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Jason Bezis, a law student at the University of California at Berkeley, has always harbored a special appreciation for our first president. He wants the nation to refer to our annual Februrary federal holiday by its given name: Washington's Birthday.