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This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Like my two previous visits I...
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Its a hard life being a bird but its especially hard if you’re a crane. Of the fifteen species of cranes alive today eleven...
Now this is a bird worth seeing! Get yourself to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Meigs County, Tennessee!
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