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I’m A Seattle-Bound Birder

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Seattle’s Discovery Park, a 534-acre jewel on Puget Sound, is described in A Birder’s Guide to Washington as “Seattle’s best one-stop birding venue&# so, clearly, a visit there is in order. Who knows, maybe luck will be with me and a Northern Pygmy Owl will show.

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The Black Album: Black Birders, Blackpoll Warblers, Black-tailed Godwits, Black Flamingos, and more

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Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I Seattle doesn’t root just for the Seahawks … study reports that Emerald City residents (and those of Berlin, Germany) find common birds like finches and corvids worth opening their wallets for. What kind of miscreant kicks a Barn Owl in mid-flight? No, you didn’t.

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