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Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

I love puffins. Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of the Atlantic Ocean, the appropriately named Atlantic Puffin. At $55 a head, and free for toddler Desi, the chance to see puffins from a comfortable boat seemed too good to ignore.

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Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park

10,000 Birds

And, for the hornbills above, an old tree hollow: Mama built a sealed nest. The hornbill paragraph, for example explains how the male seals the female into the cavity nest, using mud and droppings, leaving a small hole through which he feeds her. within an old tree’s hollow. My daddy left a little hole.