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State firsts I have known (and one I haven’t)

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Then there was the famous Tufted Duck at a water treatment plant in Winston-Salem in February of 2009. That’s a skill as much as recognizing vagrant peeps or putting a name to non-vocalizing Empids, and one under-rated by some would-be vagrant hunters. It stuck around for about a week. Just under a week for this one too.

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What is the National Bird of Honduras?

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These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This Last Weekend of November 2009? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. What is the National Bird of Denmark?

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield.

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