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If We Can Rock Together, We Can Flock Together

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Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. These Piping Plovers were photographed at White Lake, North Dakota. Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. Crested Auklets form some of the biggest, most impressive flocks and formations that I have ever seen, on islands in Alaska.

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Car Birding: A Birder Litmus Test

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Barbed wire fences are terrible for wildlife, snaring large birds and mammals alike…but for smaller passerines, they sure make good perches. National Wildlife Refuges, various wetland sites) you are supposed to bird from your car to prevent the needless flushing of birds. In many places (i.e. You will be a better birder.

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