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The Fate of the Florida Anis

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A lone Smooth-billed Ani, dubbed the ‘Orphan Ani’ by locals, that lingered for months at Anhinga Trail in 2010. Smooth-billed Anis were relative newcomers as breeders to Florida, having only begun nesting since the 1930s. A Groove-billed Ani photographed in Pinellas County in 2011, by Carlos Sanchez.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding.

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