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Great Gray Owl: Seeing the Ghost

10,000 Birds

There are birds more prized by North American birders than the Great Gray Owl , but not many*. Like many cold-weather creatures, the Great Gray Owl can to some extent trade altitude for latitude. We made our way to the spot that the owl had, according to our guides, last been seen. The owl wasn’t there.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

10,000 Birds

I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. All the info I needed came in an e-mail from a Minnesota birder named Peder. The day shift, hunting the meadow. –Bill Thompson III.