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Montezuma Winery: Carbonated Rhubarb Wine

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So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.

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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

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I am a westerner, so perhaps it is a glorious hotspot, but I’ve never heard Cape Ann, Massachusetts referred to as a world-class birding location. Why did the duck become a detective? Initially, Point Pelee National Park appears to be in Ontario, Canada (not Ohio), which makes it wrong, as well as excluded by the query itself.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. The sense of motion and raw energy is irresistible,” he says.

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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist

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It was Massachusetts Representative John Weeks who sponsored and fought for the 1911 Weeks Act, which authorized the use of federal funds for the purchase of forest lands for conservation. Flight photographs are included with the hawk, seabird, and tern entries, and many of the ducks and warblers are depicted in their male and female forms.

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But What Do Flamingos Mean?

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It was outsold by their other major plastic lawn ornament, a duck. The duck was based on live models, but the flamingo had to be drawn from photographs, since Union Products was based in Massachusetts. The Lawn Flamingo as we now know it speciated in 1957, produced by Union Products.

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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Granted, the law is written poorly, but the man was given several warnings and insisted on feeding birds on the ground and attracted huge flocks of ducks and no doubt raccoons at night. She started feeding the ducks and geese that used the open water in the 1980s. And can it really be a problem? Are you the local Goose Lady?

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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The story is that an HM editor was also president of Massachusetts Audubon. When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse. I loved that page title).