Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just risen over the northeastern tip of Long Island, and an icy wind was blowing in from Gardiners Bay. Except for screeching herring gulls and other hungry birds, the only sign of life on this blustery (20° F.) winter morning was a small column of people bundled against the cold and quietly stalking across a frozen marsh. "Hey, there's a blackback!" exclaimed their leader. "And look over there, some goldeneyes." Fighting through thick reeds and tall grass, the bird watchers soon spotted other feathered friends: half a dozen stout-bodied, short-necked diving ducks called white-winged...
...frostbitten early-morning exercise on Long Island was only a small part of an annual ritual that is, literally, for the birds. Every holiday season for the past 78 years, bird lovers have flocked to woods and parkland, marshes and meadow to participate in the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count. The object: to identify and tally as many varieties and numbers of birds as possible on a given day. This year's count involved some 33,000 people, from Nome, Alaska, to as far south as Panama and Venezuela. When all their figures are added...
Franco Scalamandre, playing with a broken nose last night, had to wear a protective screen attached to his helmet during the game. The lanky defenseman looked like a bird feeder on skates...
...sister. She was only 17, but she said 'If they blow up the house, do you think we would be happy living without our father and mother?' She took her book and went upstairs to bed. My son Gamal was only 15, but he got his small bird gun and insisted on being bodyguard. 'I want to protect my father,' he said. The next day, my husband arrested all the plotters...
...Trying to live as a Christian when I was in high school in the late '40s, I was regarded as some kind of speckled bird," says David McKenna, 48, the Evangelical president of Seattle Pacific University. "Now when Seattle Seahawks Tackle Norm Evans states his faith in Jesus at a school assembly, he is greeted by shouts of'Right...