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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

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Animal and bird rehabbers are awesome people, but even they suffer the occasional bad apple— in this case, really bad. The tree-trimmer at the heart of a disturbing Black-crowned Night Heron incident in Oakland, California turns out to be an ally for the birds. Who didn’t fare as badly as originally believed , thank goodness.)

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My First West Coast Pelagic Trip

10,000 Birds

To get out to the deep water we have to cruise for hours which necessitates leaving late in the evening, trying to sleep on an uncomfortable, moving boat, and waking up in the predawn hours to spend not-enough-time amid amazing birds before suffering through the long, boring ride through the “dead zone” back to shore.

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