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How I Saw My First Jabiru

10,000 Birds

That means that it is pretty heavily trafficked by a wide variety of vehicles that are larger than a golf cart, including dump trucks and buses. That might not sound scary but when your whole family is tooling along in a golf cart and a giant dump truck comes roaring up behind you and overtakes it is a bit unsettling.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

Paul Island, Alaska and has been reworked into an even more exceptional essay about guiding work on the island, where the unusual is the norm and bird guides use a tool kit of time and space. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.