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Where the Birds Are (and Why); Plus, Who Would Steal a Young Birder’s Make-a-Wish Gift?

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In related news, a rule forbidding nighttime high school football games during the nesting season for Newell’s Shearwaters has some Hawaiians throwing a challenge flag. Lastly, kudos to the Seattle Audubon Society for stepping up when thieves threatened to ruin a teenager with cancer’s dream birding trip. Was the U.S.

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Can the Falcons Win the Super Bowl?

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Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game. In Super Bowl XLVIII, the mighty Seattle Seahawks took a title, though they lost the following year to the aforementioned Patriots. Teams named for Homo sapiens historically do better in this game. But could the team’s name be a factor?

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Week 23: The advenure continues, Stateside

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We arrived in Seattle 6 days ago, at 12:30 in the morning, after being on the road, in one form or another since February 1st. Circumstances have been such, that the bulk of my visits to Nisqually, have been in the winter, so the refuge, in the peak of a Seattle Summer, is a much different place. Here is one of our pick-a-boo games.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2014)

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Of course both Mike and I were out and about spotting some birds this weekend.

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Year of the Eagle

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His other books told the story of the cycle of water and chronicled life of waterfowl in the Seattle Arboretum. located across a large lake from Seattle. It really looked like a game of tag. As the weaker juvenile became stronger, its flight mentor stepped up the game, though I didn’t realize it at first.

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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death

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I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. This is why I avoid Games Night at some acquaintances.' I've been hearing nightmare stories about the Primate Center for years. The ineptness and cruelty continues, but all in the name of "putting people first." They have a friend that works at this vile place.

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Birding Mount Rainier National Park

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Such thoughts were not on my mind as Daisy, Desi, and I made our way from Seattle in the dark of predawn one day at the beginning of August. For, as Muir knew, Rainier is a fire mountain, a volcano, one that last erupted in the 1800s. Let us hope it never erupts again.

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