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If We Can Rock Together, We Can Flock Together

10,000 Birds

ALWAYS assume there is some other bird species in there that you have not found yet. Here is a flock of endangered species. Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. .” Shorebirds, of course, are one of the groups of birds most known and loved for their social tendencies. Chavarrillo, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Shedding Tears For Shorebirds

10,000 Birds

The thought of identifying certain groups of birds can incapacitate them. Most of them are essentially telling you what species they are when they talk, so just focusing on appearance may make the identification process more complicated than it has to be. Photographed at Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, ND. Galled at gulls.

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Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide

10,000 Birds

And, the whole question of subspecies, which in the Northeast tends to focus on the Cackling Goose, but which I’m sure is a topic of fascination with other waterfowl species in all other parts of the world. The publicity material says 84 species, but I counted and recounted, and I only see 83.