Dvd Provides Convenient Entry Into World of Birding

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First things first: There are about 50 million birders in the United States, according to published reports, and I have no intention of becoming the 50,000,001st.

My dad was a diehard birder until he died. My mom still is. She goes on birding trips. To Costa Rica, Scotland, Texas, Uruguay, little islands I can't pronounce. Last week she was on Baffin Island above the Arctic Circle, where she saw a walrus and some bizarre- looking whales called narwhals. And what did she want to talk about when she got back?

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Dvd Provides Convenient Entry Into World of Birding

Birds.

She's been on what she calls pelagics. I tell her antibiotics should take care of that.

Don't get me wrong. I like birds just fine. I enjoy being outside, which is where they live. (The ones that live indoors, in birdcages, don't count....

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