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Shedding Tears For Shorebirds

10,000 Birds

Photographed at Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, MT. Once you accept this basic fact, you will be surprised at the ease in which you will find yourself identifying peeps and plovers, left and right. Black Oystercatcher … right? Photographed at Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, ND. Birders are a timid bunch.

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If We Can Rock Together, We Can Flock Together

10,000 Birds

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. If you can somehow convince yourself there is a rare bird to be found in every flock you look through, it won’t be long before you start finding more so-called “good” birds. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.