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The One and Only Outer Banks Big Day

10,000 Birds

We ended with 7 species of mammal, including River Otter, Gray Fox, and Marsh Rabbit, but the highlight may have been a little Canebrake Rattlesnake crossing the road at the Bodie Island lighthouse, a lifer herp for me. Canebrake Rattlesnake, the coastal subspecies of Timber Rattlesnake. Photo by Nate Swick.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

10,000 Birds

In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. But the wilds of Nevada revealed rattlesnakes, lizards (OK, the lizards didn’t seem that dangerous), and more than one mama cow who stared us down when our vehicles got too close to a calf.

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