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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

10,000 Birds

A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough. Hello my birding sons and daughters. 6) Taxonomy.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? Most of the deer and duck hunters I know lament the loss of an old growth forest or flood-plain swamp as much as I do. Soo…if all the cranes look white in a light regime like this, how does an excited gunman tell which one is the endangered one? Why not just shoot the biggest one?

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