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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California.

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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

10,000 Birds

The idea is that some finches from what is now Ecuador ended up on the Galapagos Islands, and subsequently diversified into a number of different forms … they speciated … filling various niches that on the mainland would have been filled by a number of different species. ground vs. in bushes, etc.) First, about the Galapagos.

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