My name is Amy and I live in the Chicago area.
Besides birding I love to travel.
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Posted by Amy on May 30th, 2007 at 6:12 pm CST
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Eurasian Oystercatcher / Haematopus ostralegus / Ostrero Eurasian Oystercatcher / Haematopus ostralegus / Scholekster
Eurasian Oystercatcher / Haematopus ostralegus / Scholekster
Eurasian Oystercatcher / Haematopus ostralegus / Scholekster
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My name is Amy and I live in the Chicago area.
Besides birding I love to travel. 
December 31st, 2006 at 4:47 pm
[...] I thought all we had here were ducks, geese, sparrows, pigeons and the occasional stork, but you know what? — there’s a lot more! All of a sudden I’m seeing Oystercatchers, Lapwing and Cormorants literally everywhere. I had never noticed them before. We’ve even seen wild Rose-Ringed Parakeets here in Leiden in the last few months … how could we have missed those in all the years we’ve been living here? [...]