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Wildlife and Life Celebrations

10,000 Birds

Recently a baby was born in North Carolina with Trisomy 13, a chromosomal abnormality so severe most carriers die at birth. Name-calling and charges of agenda-promoting ensued. He became a symbol of overcoming the odds, with hundreds of thousands of people around the world donating and writing him internet messages.

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Rough and Ruddy

10,000 Birds

Not long ago I was down on the southern coast of North Carolina, staked out with a group of birders seawatching on a long concrete pier on Wrightsville Beach. The birders scattered and went on to other things, including my group which had Harlequin Ducks and Black-chinned Hummingbirds on the agenda.