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In Search of New York’s Breeding Birds

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It was very shortly after five when I pulled up at Haven Road at the Bashakill State Wildlife Management Area and immediately heard an American Bittern busy “thunder-pumping.” The next hour plus netted me a host of other species, including my two other targets, Virginia Rail and Common Gallinule.

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So, What Do Robins Mean? or, Spring-Watch Continued

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But two days ago, this Debbie Downer got her comeuppance! It was the most of either species I can remember seeing in one place, and they were hyped about the berries that the mountain ash still bore. Robin photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Dr. Thomas G. He took it in good spirits. Barnes a.

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