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

10,000 Birds

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. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp!

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. Hybrid dabbling duck , Rieselfelder Münster, Germany. I did not see any lifers whatsoever in 2016, making it my first lifer-free year since around 2010.

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