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I work part time for the National Park Service (although, we’ll see what happens this weekend if there’s a federal government shutdown) and our...
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Last week I discussed the somewhat dated kakariki taxonomy used in the recent edition of the Parrots of the World by Jospeh Forshaw. My...
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Our posts on where birds meet verse are some of the most popular on the blog, beating out even wood-warblers. We therefore decided that...
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