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Wonderful Wedgies

10,000 Birds

The species ranges widely across the Pacific, as its scientific name suggests, from the Revillagigedo Islands off Mexico to the Japanese Bonin Islands to New South Wales in Australia. But it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, from Aldabra near Madagascar to Western Australia.

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Short-eared Owl at Plum Beach, Brooklyn

10,000 Birds

The Short-eared Owl has an enormous range, occurring on every continent except for Australia and Antarctica. Because of the range and population BirdLife International lists Asio flammeus as a Species of Least Concern.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

are up next, with a wonderful Australian species: It is very hard to choose a Best Bird of the Year any year. Later in the year we were able to travel around the north of Western Australia. This weird little skulking waterfowl is a species I had hoped to chance upon in various places for quite some time. Clare (and Grant!)

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