Best Bird of the Year 2011
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2011
White-tailed Lapwing by Jochen Roeder Duncan made a surprising choice: While the twitchers might have gone with the lost Emperor Penguin that washed up in June , my heart belongs to another. This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species.
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