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Slowing down Chimney Swifts

10,000 Birds

Here in the southeast, we get to watch as the flocks of sickle-winged midge tyrants funnel back south again every fall, pausing to congregate most evenings in the old smokestacks that tower above the empty tobacco factories in downtown Durham, North Carolina.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. Prairie Pothole Region of the United States , primary in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. That trip resulted in 88 lifers in limited birding.