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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. Standing in the shadow of a historic lighthouse watching Great Frigatebird, Red and White-tailed tropicbird, Laysan Albatross, and Red-footed Bobby glide by at Kilauea Point NWR is remarkable. And when else would I ever get to see Nome?

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. But if you look at a bit of prairie in South Dakota during the dead of winter, you may see very few birds and a lot of bison. When Albatross alight in temporal alignment anything else is swamped out.

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