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The Little Big Year-Week 44: Off to the islands ‘Mon

10,000 Birds

That was the best possible spot we could find from our Tucson base, and given our badly stressed budget. It just so happens, that there were some pretty decent priced flights out of Tucson, so Jeanne booked a couple of tickets, and then had to beat it back home from Texas. Here is one of those Ani’s sunning it’s self.

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Little Big Year – Week 36: Southern New Mexico hotspots.

10,000 Birds

Nearly 30,000 of these acres is set aside as dry wilderness habitat for other birds, animals and other various living creatures. This nice little group of shorebirds, including a Killdeer, three Long-billed Dowitchers and a Spotted Sandpipers all got together for a photo. Despite the backlit picture, here is the new Crissal Thrasher.

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Twenty Years Ago

Animal Ethics

Tucson, like other communities in the southwest, has satanistic, witch, and other occult groups. Needless to say, animal-rights and other groups are up in arms. Then—and here's the grisly part—the assailant cut the sheep's head off. It has not been found. Police officers speculate that the killing was cult related.

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