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The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

On our first morning after breakfast, my group and the teens piled onto a boat and headed out to Eastern Egg Rock, once again the breeding ground for Atlantic Puffins (as well as a host of other seabirds) thanks to biologist Dr. Stephen Kress. A Magnificent Frigatebird’s feathers weigh more than its skeleton.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. However, I am in a fierce and highly emotional year list competition with Corey, and it looks like I will lose against him. Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor was on the top of my list of target birds for my trip to the Dry Tortugas and Florida Keys.

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