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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

10,000 Birds

The tendency of birds to alight onto the wooden posts, steel towers, and metal wires that constitute our power and communications infrastructure turns any car ride into exciting and endless game of drive-by identification. And we move on to the next speck looming ahead and the game repeats itself, over and over. As Daniel L.

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Year of the Eagle

10,000 Birds

After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” It really looked like a game of tag.

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Kenyan LBJ’s (The Sequel)!

10,000 Birds

Hanging out with my friend Washington Wachira of Cisticola Tours Ltd – it was impossible to bypass any cisticola. I was thrilled to see a Lesser Honeyguide – the relationship between honeyguides and humans dates back to early hominids, a whopping 1.9 Surely, there is much more to see in the land of big game safaris!

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Why not just shoot the biggest one?

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