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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. I chose the Black-backed Woodpecker as my Best Bird of the Year for a couple of reasons. I wrote about the experience here.

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

10,000 Birds

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. How do I know of their Gothic moods when they have hidden them so well in an egg-white shell of conformity? Ring-billed Gull - yes indeed.

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