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Recent Examples of birderBecause of its rare appearance in the Northern Hemisphere, many birders are flocking to catch a glimpse of the vagrant gull.—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025 Bowen’s character, Chris, being a birder, made more sense somehow in Seattle.—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Apr. 2025 Monhegan Island After a short ferry ride from the mainland, birders can encounter a fascinating array of species across Monhegan Island, a popular destination for migrating songbirds during both spring and fall.—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 On a single day sometime between December 14 and January 5, birders come out in droves to observe and count birds in a twenty-four-kilometer diameter circle in their region—the same circle every year.—Sarah Boon
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This is a rite of passage, and a major time commitment, which many falconers don’t even attempt, choosing instead to buy birds from breeders or capture adults and release them at the end of the season.
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Nick Kelley,
Outdoor Life,
24 July 2025
Other records from old news sources in previous decades are less credible, for the most part, says Lauren McGough a falconer and cultural anthropologist who studies the relationships between humans and eagles.
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Joshua Rapp Learn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 July 2025
At the marketplace outside the Dalai Lama temple, hawkers like Sonam Tsomu have stocked their carts with Tibetan trinkets: bangles and necklaces made of colorful beads and bobbleheads of little Lamas.
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Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
2 July 2025
When the cab was stuck in traffic, hawkers pressed close to the window and urged me to buy a pair of glasses, or some roasted cashews, packed in repurposed plastic water bottles.
Unusually for a Victorian sportsman, Wingfield marketed his game equally to men and women, and the fad spread rapidly through the gardens of England and beyond.
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Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
Macaluso, too, suggests that rather than fighting over redfish, sportsmen ought to expand their notions of which fish are desirable.
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Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 June 2025
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