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Birding In Low Places

10,000 Birds

Slaty-backed Gull at a dump, Baikal Teal at a sewage pond, Yellow-green Vireo at some random park in the ghetto…if a place collects birds, birders will go there. Not long after I discovered that place, I saw my very first rare bird…a Ruff , which was hanging out in a flood control channel in an industrial area.