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What It Feels Like For a Ferret Watcher

10,000 Birds

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. No coyotes in sight right now, the Great Horned Owls are off in the cottonwoods closer to the river. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates.

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