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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. In any event, by mid summer or so, the babies are not so small and more or less do OK on their own and hang around the nest.

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