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Montezuma Winery: Carbonated Rhubarb Wine

10,000 Birds

“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina. He once obtained a specimen in full plumage about ten miles north of Charleston.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. God, we’re a selfish bunch, aren’t we?”

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In defense of county listing

10,000 Birds

The search for the next new bird is that much more fulfilling when you’re limited to the smallest of the arbitrary political boundaries in the United States, and the search for those birds necessitates a broad working knowledge of the county of the sort that can only be attained through experience. You simply cannot go wrong.

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