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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

10,000 Birds

The species name is long enough to be the middle line of a formal English haiku. You also learn that for birds that spend most of their lives drifting above the ocean and sleeping on the wing, the species isn’t exactly aquatic. We went from one disastrous spill to another, searching for oiled birds, but mostly documenting the dead.

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A Red-naped Sapsucker and a Townsend’s Warbler

10,000 Birds

I have been searching through the internet this evening trying to find support for some behaviour that I witnessed at Fort Mason, San Francisco, this week. Warblers, orioles, kinglets and gnatcatchers have all been seen as have small mammals such as Pine Martins, bats and Red Squirrels but seldom, it seems, is the behaviour documented.