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Essentials For Packing When Birding Anywhere In The World

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I travel for birding. I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as I’m packing, I thought I would share with you some essentials I think any birder should plan to have in their suitcase–no matter where they are visiting. I was at a birding festival in North Dakota in June and it was a chilly morning.

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A Northern Wheatear in New York

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But you do not want this to happen while you are outside of Philadelphia and facing hours of rain-slowed traffic just to get back to New York City, especially when the bird in question, while within the one hour radius of home, is on the northern edge of that radius. This situation simply could not stand.

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