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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.

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Wonderful Wedgies

10,000 Birds

The species ranges widely across the Pacific, as its scientific name suggests, from the Revillagigedo Islands off Mexico to the Japanese Bonin Islands to New South Wales in Australia. Another difference is that the Christmas Shearwater is a surface breeder whereas the Wedgie breeds in burrows. Pale and dark morph side-by side.

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