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Best Birds of my First Year with 10,000 Birds

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Mandarin Ducks, Munich, Germany. Sure, it is an introduced species in Germany. And they aren’t nearly as famous as the vagrant/escaped Mandarin Duck of Central Park. But they were still Mandarin Ducks! Plus a few truly difficult species. American Oystercatcher, Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.

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My Year in Birding 2012

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Seeing 525 species was nice, as was the fact that I birded in four countries, nine of the fifty states in the United States, and fifty-one counties. Mottled Duck ? August – Germany and More Local Birding. Two-thousand-twelve was a pretty darn good year for me birding-wise and otherwise. Florida Scrub Jay ?

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Perth Hills National Parks

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The scheme was devised by C Y O’Connor who was an Irish engineer and steel was brought to Western Australia from both Germany and the United States of America and when the pipeline was completed it was the longest fresh water pipe in the world. Glen Brook Dam. Red-capped Parrot -high in the trees!

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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COVID-19 was the worst of it but we also endured horrific wildfires, tremendously damaging hurricanes, another year of the worst President of the United States in history, and the list could go on ad infinitum. I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. In a year divided by pre-pandemic birds (travel!),

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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True to form, the United States Department of Agriculture seems less concerned about the health or status of Yellow Bitterns and more about managing the birds on Guam to minimize threats to aviation safety. The one for bird photographers (a Spot-billed Duck ) is shown below. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.

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