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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of October 2011?

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Everywhere you look in the United States around this time of year, giant orange squashes are just loafing around, killing time until their inevitable trip to the mulch pile on November 1. Clear skies over the classic Acacia-studded grasslands of the Serengeti a. Do you know what I love about October?

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Going to Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium. Wait, Ohio?

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Why would I not be wholeheartedly gung-ho about going to what is unanimously and resoundingly considered an excellent, fun, exciting, star-studded, bird-filled, and magnificent event? CON – Though Ohio joined the United States in 1803 Congress forgot to pass a resolution formally admitting the state. John Kasich.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. He is the Harvey Weinstein of Pink Pigeons). Because, Ms.

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