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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. I particularly enjoy birding national wildlife refuges, so I try to include at least one on each trip.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. But if you look at a bit of prairie in South Dakota during the dead of winter, you may see very few birds and a lot of bison. A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. Amphibian’s and Reptiles: 3.4

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