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Royal Shags and Tricky Parakeets: Birding Queen Charlotte Sound

10,000 Birds

In the early morning out on the water there were plenty of Fluttering Shearwaters and Australasian Gannets, and close to a salmon farm we found New Zealand Fur Seals as well as Pied Shags, Little Shags and Spotted Shags (I can only assume that kiwis just like calling all cormorants shags because they are all five years old).

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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. You couldn’t see it. John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.

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