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A Birder’s Guide To…INDOCTRINATION

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No one, aside from your therapist, wants to spend time with a Debbie Downer. Just because you can’t spare the time to watch a California Towhee anymore doesn’t mean your non birding buddy won’t decide that a towhee is the best thing since sliced bread. Here we go! 1) Be weird. 5) Have a sense of humor.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer. And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? And no one had seen the Eskimo Curlew around in a while.