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RARE VISITOR TO OUR SHORES
Robert H. Boyle
December 24, 1990
An avian hot line alerted U.S. birders to a stray wood sandpiper in New York
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December 24, 1990

Rare Visitor To Our Shores

An avian hot line alerted U.S. birders to a stray wood sandpiper in New York

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But Burke, Brinker and a thousand others are already convinced of what they saw. "Look," says Burke. "If you're interested in fish or plants, you know what to expect when you look somewhere. But birds give the unexpected. You see things that boggle your mind. In birding circles, we call them cosmic mindblowers. This was a cosmic mindblower."

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