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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

10,000 Birds

He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . More Birds Than Bullets: My Life With Birds is his account of the centrality of birds in all of these endeavors, and in his life.

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Week three, the road goes on forever.

10,000 Birds

We will cover nearly 3000 miles driving before we reach Seattle, and our final stop. It turned out that my sister was going to be just fine, which meant that we might be able to pick up a few coastal birds earlier in my year than planned. A new lifer for me, and a bird that was never ever on any of my wish lists.

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