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A Corn Crake in New York State!

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…maybe there’s a secret Corn Crake breeding farm out in Gilgo Beach. More recently, in January 2016 , a Corn Crake was found in the jaws of a cat in Pennsylvania; it died from its injuries. Hopefully, its reaction to any feral cats in the area will be the same as its reactions to birders–run! I should go.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647. Crawford, R.D.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?)