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Migration and More: A Bird News Update

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Staff from the San Diego Zoo think so. The best guess scientists have about the “mystery goo” that sickened hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay earlier this year is “a polymerized oil similar to a vegetable oil.” Can California Condors be taught to avoid the dangers of power lines ?

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FBI Lists Animal Rights Extremist as Most Wanted Terrorist

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Daniel Andreas San Diego, wanted for alleged involvement in 2 bombings in San Francisco has been listed by the FBI as one of their Most Wanted Terrorists. San Diego has ties to animal rights extremist groups. San Diego wears eyeglasses, is skilled at sailing, and has traveled internationally.

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The Truth Is Out There

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Recently a Fork-tailed Flycatcher was reported from a park in San Francisco, a long ways away from its home in Central and South America. Pin-tailed Whydah at Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco, CA. Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a vagrant that ABA Area birders unashamedly lust for.

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What’s the Next ABA-Countable Exotic?

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Red-masked Parakeet, a near-threatened endemic of southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, has sizeable population clusters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale.

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Splitsville

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I have seen Mallards in places as distant as San Francisco and Munich. This Western Grebe was from just north of San Diego. And there was great rejoicing thoughout the land!) But you pretty much must come to Mexico to see the Mexican Duck , which I see every time I go to our nearest lake. A male Mallard from Munich.

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