Word: swainson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with me." There are some 550 species in the state. Racing from site to site by foot, van and plane, the four were really humming. From the great crested flycatcher all the way to the least grebe, they totted up tally after tally. The black-bellied whistling duck, the Swainson's warbler, the pileated woodpecker, the Caspian tern, the chachalaca and the dickcissel were all sighted, and all, says Peterson, were "old friends either by sight or sound." In the end the total was 235, beating the old mark by four species. Peterson's advice to would...