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Free Housing in New York City

10,000 Birds

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, April 2010 Everyone knows that New York City is an extremely expensive place to live. If one is lucky enough to find a place that one likes one must often pay in rent per month what would easily be a mortgage payment in a more sane part of the country.

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

10,000 Birds

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Here’s hoping this bird makes it back to its home turf to breed and comes back to spend another winter in New York State! Melanerpes lewis is, to put it simply, a really cool bird. Mwahahahahaaaaar!

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