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Swainson’s Hawks in Plumas County

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These beautiful birds are now reduced in numbers or distribution throughout their range and considered to be declining in Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. They are listed as a Species of Special Concern in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, and as Threatened in California. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tVjohOIdI. v=Q7tVjohOIdI.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

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In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. Nothing, however, prepared me for the fauna that awaited last weekend at the Spring Wings festival in Fallon, Nevada. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count.

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