Shorebird Quiz Answers
Forgot to ID all the birds in a previous quiz. Here there are. The Baird’s was kind of unfair
The rest are Least, unless I missed something.
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Shorebird Quiz
Ok, here’s today’s quiz photo!!! How many can you ID? Taken at Hornsby last night. Hint: there are 6 species.
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