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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

10,000 Birds

Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in between. A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? Eventually, I found the lone whooping crane present at the refuge by its call. Soo…if all the cranes look white in a light regime like this, how does an excited gunman tell which one is the endangered one? Why not just shoot the biggest one? I knew I’d never heard that before.

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