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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

White-tailed Lapwing by Jochen Roeder Duncan made a surprising choice: While the twitchers might have gone with the lost Emperor Penguin that washed up in June , my heart belongs to another. What’s not to like about an owl that lives underground? That’s right, my Best Bird of the Year is the Burrowing Owl !

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