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It feels like spring….

10,000 Birds

As I sat waiting for the bus home there was a wind, hardly a rarity here in New Zealand, but it was a warm wind, and that certainly is. The spring the birds I’ll show you today is far from the seat of New Zealand’s government where I now work. Sparrows are from the family Passeridae. Long may it last.

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Bring back the Blue Tit

10,000 Birds

They give short shrift to New Zealand’s birds, lumping them with odd names no one here uses because the names are shared elsewhere and God knows America isn’t going to take a hit for us. I’m not blind to the list’s faults, though. But if the list has one real problem, it’s a tendency towards verbosity.

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