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Where the Birds Are (and Why); Plus, Who Would Steal a Young Birder’s Make-a-Wish Gift?

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In related news, a rule forbidding nighttime high school football games during the nesting season for Newell’s Shearwaters has some Hawaiians throwing a challenge flag. Lastly, kudos to the Seattle Audubon Society for stepping up when thieves threatened to ruin a teenager with cancer’s dream birding trip. Was the U.S.

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The Black Album: Black Birders, Blackpoll Warblers, Black-tailed Godwits, Black Flamingos, and more

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Seattle doesn’t root just for the Seahawks … study reports that Emerald City residents (and those of Berlin, Germany) find common birds like finches and corvids worth opening their wallets for. It’s not quite Tippi Hedren–worthy, but birds swarming your living room is probably fair game for some NSFW language.

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Can the Falcons Win the Super Bowl?

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Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game. In Super Bowl XLVIII, the mighty Seattle Seahawks took a title, though they lost the following year to the aforementioned Patriots. Teams named for Homo sapiens historically do better in this game. But could the team’s name be a factor?

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Week 23: The advenure continues, Stateside

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We arrived in Seattle 6 days ago, at 12:30 in the morning, after being on the road, in one form or another since February 1st. Circumstances have been such, that the bulk of my visits to Nisqually, have been in the winter, so the refuge, in the peak of a Seattle Summer, is a much different place. Here is one of our pick-a-boo games.

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Taking on Turkeys

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You’ll understand why if you skip the Thanksgiving football games and parades in favor of the cult favorite (and decidedly *Not Safe for Work*, or anywhere else for that matter) Thankskilling , in which a foul-mouthed, evil turkey rises from the dead and terrorizes college students going home for the holiday.

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Year of the Eagle

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His other books told the story of the cycle of water and chronicled life of waterfowl in the Seattle Arboretum. located across a large lake from Seattle. It really looked like a game of tag. As the weaker juvenile became stronger, its flight mentor stepped up the game, though I didn’t realize it at first.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2014)

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Of course both Mike and I were out and about spotting some birds this weekend.

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