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The Summer Doldrums

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Nothing is quite as much of a downer to a birder than the summer doldrums. Uncomfortable weather and a lack of birds make birders grumpy. What can a bird blogger do but try to write his way out of the summer doldrums? How can you bird for a day in the summer? What other birds can you find in summer’s dog days?

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer. Or the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. … Birding Extinction Week Great Auk' Good, I say.