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Petrel Paradise

10,000 Birds

Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet !

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

10,000 Birds

” It was only an hour, and only one species of bird, but this was a big check off of my bucket list, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience that vividly reminded me why I love birding. I saw my best bird of the year during the World Birding Rally Challenge in South East Peru. Alfredo had to work for his Best Bird of the Year!

2013 167