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If We Can Rock Together, We Can Flock Together

10,000 Birds

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. In the case of these Tricolored Blackbirds , they are formed for DEFENSE. Great Frigatebirds are infamous for assaulting boobies ( Red-footed Boobies , that is) in the air, but when perched they seem to get along just fine.

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Shedding Tears For Shorebirds

10,000 Birds

Photographed at Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, MT. Barf at blackbirds. Photographed at Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, ND. Photographed at Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, ND. Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, MT. See, it’s not so scary! Birders are a timid bunch. Galled at gulls.

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