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Chronic Exposure in Colorado

10,000 Birds

Say, Bullock, Brewer, and Cassin will lose their English namesakes in the recently announced renaming game. Denver has more than its fair share of areas with a nuclear military history and we drove to the one nearest to the office, Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge. To avoid writing a non-woke post I planned to mention scientific names only.

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Wild Sri Lanka

10,000 Birds

As Bill Oddie noticed in his foreword to ‘Wild Sri Lanka’ (2nd edition) by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne, this island paradise is probably the only country in the world where almost all books on wildlife were authored by a single person. Such a concept seems perfect for a phone app on Sri Lanka wildlife watching.

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