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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

10,000 Birds

Evening Grosbeak, Michigan. There is a wonderful place in the lower peninsula of Michigan called Hartwick Pines State Park. It’s one of the only places in Michigan where you can walk under old growth white pines. John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota.

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Comebackers

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is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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