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Foreign Languages on a Birding Trip

10,000 Birds

At some stage, almost standing still in a traffic jam on the highway towards San Jose, I was calling a fellow 10K beat writer Pat O’Donnell, enquiring about the chances to meet in my hotel. His host’s house was smoke-blackened, everything but his shiny hunting rifles. Yes, he could have played dumb, but I wasn’t any smarter.

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