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Pat’s Year List, it’s 2016!

10,000 Birds

This year, visiting Niagara Falls until January 6th gave me the chance to experience a bit of both latitudes. A cold, productive day spent birding with a friend from Buffalo was marked by two owls, lots of ducks, Tundra Swans , several gulls, and other targets not possible in tropical Costa Rica.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. Scientists now hypothesize that there are two morphs of this owlet, one of which is invisible.

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