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The Truth Is Out There

10,000 Birds

This bird was photographed a few years ago in Connecticut, by Corey Finger. Superficially similar to Fork-tailed Flycatcher, especially if you don’t know that this species exists! So unprepared were local birders for Pin-tailed Whydah, some of them openly questioned the species’ very existence on the local listserv.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

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