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Article: birding; the feeder; Bird word.(HOME & GARDEN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2007
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Byline: Jim Williams
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Article: BIRDING; THE FEEDER; BIRD WORD; Shorebird.(HOME & ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
October 13, 2004 ;
566 words
...Byline: L.K. Hanson; Staff Writer Shorebird: Another term for the bird species you might call sandpipers. Not all birds of the shore are sandpipers, though. Some are ducks or terns or gulls. And, despite their name, not all shorebirds are birds of the shore, either. The woodcock, snipe and upland
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