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A Birder’s Guide To…INDOCTRINATION

10,000 Birds

No one, aside from your therapist, wants to spend time with a Debbie Downer. One of the tools people use to identify themselves with certain subcultures, consciously and subconsiously, is language. Not everyone can spontaneously combust into the greatest birder of our generation, as I have. Here we go! 1) Be weird.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer. It turned out that all our tools and will didn’t mean we could just keep the bits we liked and drain the rest for highways. Or Bachman’s Warbler. Will it work?