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The last time I visited the San Diego Wild Animal Park, which is the breeding facility affiliated with the San Diego Zoo and a tourist attraction in its own right, I was hoping to see the long-staying, out-of-place Wood Stork and perhaps a Zone-tailed Hawk among the many Turkey Vultures.  I was successful finding the [...]

When one thinks of great birding locations one typically doesn’t think of a zoo. Sure, one can see cool birds at a zoo but they’re in cages and birders can’t count caged birds. Southern California, however, has a gem of a zoo you might have heard of: the San Diego Zoo. And further north, just [...]