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Sixth Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit An Amazing Success!

10,000 Birds

We finally heard a Downy Woodpecker , a bird we had never missed on the Big Sit. We also saw lots of dolphins in the ocean and Humpback Whale blow. Then Matthieu pointed out the Brown Pelican flying by over the ocean and all hell broke loose! Everyone managed to see the pelican except for one person (sorry, Donna ).

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. Or the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. We could do it! Will it work?