Weekly Bird Report

• In search of Massachusetts puffins

  The Atlantic puffin is a real crowd-pleaser. While people know them as a nesting bird of rocky Maine Islands in summer, small numbers winter in deep Massachusetts waters.

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• A visit from two rare birds

  A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.

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• A visit from two rare birds

  A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.

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• Time to talk wild turkeys

  Turkeys have a role to play in the emergence of that pest du jour, the Lone Star Tick, and the weird red-meat allergy they transmit, alpha-gal syndrome. You could say that when it comes to alpha-gal, turkeys giveth, and turkeys taketh away.

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• A solitary solitaire

  Townsend’s Solitaire is the only US representative of a group of mostly mountain dwelling thrushes of Central and South America, plus Hawaii somehow, and are some of my favorite birds. They are related to our bluebirds and robins but are better singers than both.

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