Word: rubythroat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinguishing between normal and obsessed watchers: the obsessives dream of going to Attu, a bleak Aleutian island 100 miles from Soviet waters and about 1,500 miles from Anchorage. Attu vaguely resembles a penal colony, but it is paradise to birders pining for a flyby of the Siberian rubythroat or other Asian rarities. "We have people who go without any hope of seeing new birds," says Larry Balch, the ABA's president and head of Attour, a service that brings about 65 birders to the island each spring for three weeks. "There's something magic and very relaxing about being...
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