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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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It is also a month when the Law of Diminishing Returns over-took itself. US-ND-Little Missouri National Grassland (46.5556,-103.4306). Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Tom’s own list continues apace Those of us who have tried to do a big year know how tough it gets on the homeward stretch and will be rooting for him.

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