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A Day in Anchorage

10,000 Birds

Because when you’ve painstakingly built your life list over the years, visiting the corners of North America for specialties and pushing your ABA list to 600 or so, Alaska almost always remains as the last place a birder can visit where bucket-loads of lifer, the sort of haul you really only get in the early years, are still possible.

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And it’s a wrap….

10,000 Birds

I must have keep 400 images in the file of just this one species. This late evening photo of an American Avocet is one of my all time favorites of this species. While California Quail are quite common all around North America, getting a really nice shot, out in the wild is always a challenge.