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Birding Beyond 60

10,000 Birds

Clay-colored Sparrows In about a month, I will have my 66th birthday. But once I get back home to Mexico, I will be climbing hills on livestock trails once again. And I must be careful to protect my skin, having had a couple of basal cells removed. Black-chinned Sparrow , a flagship species for this site.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. Afraid that their ideas for the development of the area, including a ski centre, might be restricted by the nature protection regime, the officials rejected the idea. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Tree Sparrow – Passer montanus.

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