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Monarchs. They’re practically honorary birds – beloved, much written about, rather visible and charismatic in their stripey larval form and spectacularly so as vivid...
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Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he...
On my latest trip home my mom and I spent a bit of time talking about Bald Eagles. I’d seen quite a few along...
Tragically, McSweeney’s doesn’t have quite enough hard-core birders in the audience to appreciate this. But I thought you guys would! Look, you guys, I...
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