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Audubon’s Footsteps

10,000 Birds

Sometimes, in those rough and primitive days, their luck was good: as Lucy wrote about their flatboat trip down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, past Wheeling and Cincinnati, to Louisville, “the seven hundred miles by water was performed without much fatigue though not without some disagreeables.”

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The Birds of March Madness

10,000 Birds

At least one local European Starling decided to cheer on the Blackbirds at University of Dayton Arena in Ohio, flying around the court and even touching down on the hardwood before perching in the rafters. Florida Gulf Coast Eagles. Liberty Flames (represented by their American Bald Eagle, Sparky). Louisville Cardinals.