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Birding’s Biggest Dips

10,000 Birds

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. This is how it worked out for Paul and Anita: Chase #1: Drove from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania to Boca Raton, FL. Cuban Pewee 2; Paul and Anita Guris 0 A Cuban Pewee by Mike Bergin Jochen Roder spent a long time walking to dip on a Snowy Owl in Norway.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Speller, C.,

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