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Car Birding: A Birder Litmus Test

10,000 Birds

Indeed, can you truly experience the wonder of nature from the confines of a vehicle? This is one of many Black Terns flying low over a bridge at Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. Always, always, have binoculars and camera within reach when you are driving around on a birding trip. Why limit ourselves to the U.S.?

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!

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