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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. It flies on. Not when we have but 400 to spare.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

deep-pandemic birds (all local), and still-pandemic birds (a little travel), it is the Rhode Island Common Cuckoo that will define this year for me. Donna is up next and she has a bird that she had to chase: It’s Common Cuckoo for the win! In a year divided by pre-pandemic birds (travel!),

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