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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

10,000 Birds

O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. What a sight.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Harper contributed artwork to 120 issues of Ford Times, illustrating articles on topics ranging from travel to fish to recipes. ” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.” Starting in 1956, Harper wrote the text for the articles as well.