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Know Your Audience: A Ring-necked Duck in Germany

10,000 Birds

I recently participated in an “English Report Writing” training, sponsored of course by my employer, and this post will function as a test to see how well I was focussed on the lecture (instead of the sky outside the seminar room which may hold a black stork any day during spring migration). Like … the Tufted Duck !

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Week 26: San juan Islands

10,000 Birds

The days for me to add to my Little Big Years species count are getting fewer and fewer, and with it, my budget. Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. Little Big Year species count: 834. US species count: 139. Here is one of them standing in the kelp.

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