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One thing was becoming obvious to me now: list-chasing was not the best way to learn birds. It had been a good way to start, an incentive for getting to a lot of places and seeing a lot of species. But the lure of running up a big list made it all too tempting to simply check off a bird and run on to the next, without taking time to really get to know them.

— Kenn Kaufman Kingbird Highway (1997)

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But I should have known—when the gods seem to smile, they may in fact be laughing.

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