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In Search of New York’s Breeding Birds

10,000 Birds

It was very shortly after five when I pulled up at Haven Road at the Bashakill State Wildlife Management Area and immediately heard an American Bittern busy “thunder-pumping.” Grasshopper Sparrows don’t seem to sing terribly loudly but their song carries a long way. The only downer was that they did not come close.

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