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New Games for a New Year

10,000 Birds

Way back last year, a whole two weeks ago, a sudden influx of Ross’s Geese in central North Carolina led to an unofficial competition between myself and some birders in the Raleigh-Durham Area. I fully expect each group to push that into the 500-600 range by the end of the year.

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Kite Running

10,000 Birds

The name has always seemed to apply to a rather motley group of birds, from the exquisite Scissor-tailed Kite of east Africa, to the grotesque Hook-billed Kite of Central America, and various and sundry examples in between. We in the south are stuffed silly with kites. When suddenly one of them plummeted to the ground.