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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer. Will it work?

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My First West Coast Pelagic Trip

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Eighteen-hour trips are the rule and only about four or five hours are spent in the prime area to see the species most birders are hoping to see. Where Hawaii, Japan, and Siberia are just an ocean away. Pacific White-sided Dolphin with a Fin Whale. (At At least I think that’s a Fin Whale. I’m bad at whales.).

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