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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

However, he went far afield to find a more familiar fowl. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. On occasion, they even incubate their eggs (they are non-parasitic cuckoos) in a communal nest.

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