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Landfill by Tim Dee: Review

10,000 Birds

” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. Publisher Little Toller Books, United Kingdom. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.” Book details. Hardback | 178mm x 128mm | 240 pages.

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Manx Shearwaters

10,000 Birds

Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. I wrote about the experience here. Adam Riley chose a bird that is near and dear to Mike Bergin’s heart.

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