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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

10,000 Birds

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 Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough. Hello my birding sons and daughters. 6) Taxonomy.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? 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? The biggest gobbler, the biggest buck… And this? I thought whooping cranes were all white.

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