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Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At Sadly, it seems that Alaska lacks the internet or phone service, as I have not heard from him about what his Best Bird of the Weekend was. So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.)
to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. And then there’s rufous, who journeys between Mexico and Alaska twice a year. Angela Minor has lived, traveled, and birded from the southern U.S.
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