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The beginner birding problem is not merely that birds are difficult to see. It is that several birds have declined to sound like birds.
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The phrase **two-person tent** sounds clear until two actual people attempt to put themselves inside one.
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The American Woodcock is a shorebird that lives in the woods. It has a long bill, a round body, short legs, eyes placed high and far back on the skull, and a walk that looks like somebody has attached a small motor to…
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An eastern chipmunk announced its immediate retirement Tuesday after obtaining a single unsalted peanut from beneath a picnic table.
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A national monument can protect an enormous landscape. It can also protect one cave. One volcano. One fossil deposit.
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A Joshua tree looks like someone tried to build a tree from verbal instructions. Tall trunk. Branches.
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Six Scouts completing an orienteering exercise returned 47 minutes late Saturday after successfully applying several navigation techniques in locations not included on the course map.
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Emergency preparedness has a natural life cycle. First, a severe storm happens somewhere else. Then you read an article.
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The Great Basin sounds like one object. A basin. Large. Simple. Perhaps somewhere near Nevada. This is false in nearly every useful way.
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A black bear that investigated a parked Subaru Wednesday abandoned the vehicle after determining that its contents consisted almost entirely of climbing equipment, reusable water bottles, and one pair of approach shoes…