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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

I traveled to the other side of the world just to see a chicken! Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings. Black-backed Woodpecker by Larry Jordan Alan Tilmouth chose a bird that I would love to see myself.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. Larry Jordan Mar 20th, 2011 at 11:48 pm Thank you for that clarification Vickie. It flies on. Not when we have but 400 to spare.

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