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“How about Pineapple Gose-beak?” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose

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These unwanted orphans of German brewing were mainly left to fend for themselves in the oncoming dissolution of regional specialties as the nation unified its government – and its brewing laws. It became extinct on two occasions, immediately after the Second World War, and again in the final days of Communist power in East Germany.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding. Luckily I wasn’t affected too severely by the current pandemic: I lost neither life nor family members to Covid, only my job which was replaced the same day I lost it.

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