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Old Crow Distillery Company: Old Crow

10,000 Birds

This year it was an American Crow ( Corvus brachyrhyncus ), though at home in Albany, New York, it’s just as likely to be – and has been in the past – a Fish Crow ( Corvus ossifragus ). But which species of crow is our Old Crow – Fish or American? Well, it’s happened again – my first bird of the year was a crow.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

Maybe it was a version of the Mississippi River, maybe it was a version of the Warren River, likely both. 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. Then one day they are gone.

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