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Chronic Exposure in Colorado

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Denver has more than its fair share of areas with a nuclear military history and we drove to the one nearest to the office, Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge. That is arguably the scariest sentence you will ever read in a birding blog. From 1952 to 1989 plutonium was used at Rocky Flats to manufacture triggers for hydrogen bombs.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. One nice little story for my blog post lost. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact.

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