Birds Hunting Minnesota Suffering 
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2014
There are birds more prized by North American birders than the Great Gray Owl , but not many*. As part of my commitment to birding excellence in 2014, I signed up for eBird alerts — receiving messages each time a bird not yet on my year list is reported in Missoula County. We went beyond. The owl wasn’t there.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2011
Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds.
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