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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

2011 244
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Best Bird of the Year 2013

10,000 Birds

” It was only an hour, and only one species of bird, but this was a big check off of my bucket list, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience that vividly reminded me why I love birding. I saw my best bird of the year during the World Birding Rally Challenge in South East Peru. Alfredo had to work for his Best Bird of the Year!

2013 168