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Mountain Plover at the Shore

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North Carolina is perhaps unfortunate to have a lot of such places. Researchers doing shorebird surveys on the Core Banks (that is, the section of coast between Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout) had a tendency to find some interesting stuff. I admit I underestimated the resolve of North Carolina’s listing community.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed.

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