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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

10,000 Birds

The species name is long enough to be the middle line of a formal English haiku. I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. So we used MAFR, the American Ornithological Union’s 4-letter code.