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The Great Hummingbird Nest Heist

10,000 Birds

Thru the course of time, travel, and a lot of different occupations, he ended up living in Seattle, and met a girl with a sailboat. This beautiful story is Tom’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds : My wife and I sailed our sailboat down from cold, rainy Seattle to warm, sunny La Paz, Mexico several years ago. Mom on nest.

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

10,000 Birds

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. Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Now you have. Different, but the same?

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