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I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. For a long...
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The Little Blue Heron, like most (all?) herons and egrets, flies with its neck bent and its head drawn in close to the body so...
Penguins. The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds” but they do in fact fly; They...
It has been quite some time since the last diabolical quiz and this quiz will more than make up for lost time. Each and...
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