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Closing in on the Magic Double Century

10,000 Birds

My target at the start of the year was 200 species in the UK and 300 in Europe, so I’ve achieved the latter, while the chances of reaching the former are pretty good. Nor have I see a skua (jaeger) of any species. The shrikes are one of the most handsome of bird families. An everyday bird, the Woodpigeon.

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Bean Hollow

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Back when I was a kid growing up in California’s San Mateo County in the 60s and 70s, my family would occasionally drive 45 minutes west and south to Bean Hollow State Beach. He pointed out the differences in the day’s five gull species, all of which flew fairly close to the bluff from which we watched.

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Calling All Birders: Come To Hog Island!

10,000 Birds

The first time I saw a puffin, it was a revelation. Soon after our late afternoon arrival we met up with my friend Pete Salmonsohn, Education Coordinator for Audubon’s Project Puffin , who hustled us into a van for a 20-minute drive to New Harbor. We want all birds to be bursting with health, and we revel in our rare idle moments.

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All about alcids: Extravagant divers of northern oceans

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Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and breeding, often in large colonies, on coastlines and islands. Atlantic Puffins ( Fratercula arctica ), Witless Bay, Newfoundland © David J. © David J. (See

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

I love puffins. Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of the Atlantic Ocean, the appropriately named Atlantic Puffin. At $55 a head, and free for toddler Desi, the chance to see puffins from a comfortable boat seemed too good to ignore.

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Birding Senegal: Costco ads and Scissor-tailed Kites

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Called home to the Oregon Coast to operate the family motel, in her free time she leads Tufted Puffin walks and escapes to guide at birding festivals and explore the world as often as possible. Scissor-tailed Kites – while not threatened now – are a vulnerable species. Bustards are awkward birds who bounce around in the brush.

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Birding (and drinking mezcal) in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Called home to the Oregon Coast to operate the family motel, in her free time she leads Tufted Puffin walks and escapes to guide at birding festivals and explore the world as often as possible. The first we went to was a family home with generations of mezcaleros and the process being completed in their front courtyard.

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