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The Vulturine Storks

10,000 Birds

Of course, I’m speaking of the mysterious Wood Stork , Mycteria americana , the only representative of that famous family to regularly occur north of the Mexican border and present in large numbers along the northern coast of South Carolina, where I found myself a couple weekends back. This is a bird with some pedigree.

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La Vieille Ferme: Rouge (2016)

10,000 Birds

That’s “c**k-a-doodle-doo” en français: a Red Junglefowl ( Gallus gallus ) in its native habitat in southeast Asia. Introduced, exotic, possibly ship-assisted Red Junglefowl can be found all across France. This week’s bottle is a blended red wine from La Vieille Ferm (“the old farm”). So I survived.

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