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Paradise Regained

10,000 Birds

I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. It wasn’t until a later Pino Real trip, back in 2014, that I saw my first Black-headed Siskins. And this was once a wonderful patch of bird-rich understory. Now it is just… grass. No doubt, my low expectations were key.

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