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Word: surveillances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1967-1967
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...dogged were the birders that even the birds far at sea were under surveil lance. Nearly 100 members of California's Golden Gate Audubon Society set out in a three-ship flotilla for the three-hour cruise to the offshore Farallon Is lands. In the process, the birders had to weather a sickening swell, the pungent aroma of the guano-splattered Farallons and the even more pungent smell of overripe suet, thrown overboard for bait. For their fortitude they were rewarded with such rarities as Brandt's cormorants, tufted puffins, pink-footed shearwaters and a couple of black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outdoors: Getting the Bird | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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