Good afternoon, Tweets.
A few of you saw me stumbling around the Fill last month with hastily borrowed binoculars in search of the suspected Lesser White Fronted Goose. I do have my own pair, and I do actually have some (very) limited birding skills -- I also don't normally wear a hot pink fleece when I'm trying to find elusive birds. :).
I'm looking to improve my birding skills and have bird-nerd fantasies of learning with a few other people around my age (20s - 30s), because I can't be the only young wannabe birder out here. I think it would be fun to learn together. I'm also planning to start my own environmental communications business and would like to enhance my birding and ornithology knowledge base to help small organizations develop outreach and education materials. However, I don't have any real connections to the birding community yet, apart from a Seattle Audubon membership and reading this listserv. Has anyone heard of a young birding group out there in the Seattle area? If not, do you think people would be interested if I started one? Feel free to reply off-list if this isn't of interest to most.
Meg Matthews
Communications Assistant
UW Botanic Gardens
206-543-2608
gavigan at u.washington.edu
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1. Birds in the News 122 -- Luck o' the Irish Edition (link)
(Devorah Bennu)
2. Question about cormorants at Green Lake, Seattle (Evan Houston)
3. Montlake Fill, Seattle- Say's Phoebe (Rick Hibpshman)
4. Vancouver Northern Shrike (Benjamin Berkompas)
5. RE: Parakeets at Seward Park, Seattle (Stewart Wechsler)
6. Re: Need for Dead Bird Info (Clarence C. Lupo)
7. Fw: Thanks and info on Juv Sandhill Crane (Penny Koyama)
8. wigeons (Marv Breece)
9. Cooper's Hawk and Red-breasted Sapsucker at Wallace Swamp
Creek Park (LINDA PHILLIPS)
10. Pics from Nisqually yesterday (debsstuff at comcast.net)
11. New Slaty-backed Gull photos (Ruth Sullivan)
12. Listing Software (Brian S. Jones)
13. FW: spectacular Osprey photos (Francis Wood)
14. Band-tailed pigeons (Eric Kowalczyk)
15. On holistic birding (Mike Patterson)
16. RE: FW: spectacular Osprey photos (alan roedell)
17. Late weekend report (hughbirder at earthlink.net)
18. Re: FW: spectacular Osprey photos (mgmerrill at comcast.net)
19. Shorebird fly over (Janet Carroll)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Devorah Bennu <birdologist at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Birds in the News 122 -- Luck o' the Irish Edition
(link)
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Hello everyone,
Birds in the news is available this week, and features
a really lovely picture of a male northern cardinal
sitting in the snow of Central Park, NYC, thanks to my
friend, author Bob Levy;
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/03/birds_in_the_news_122.php
I am hoping that featuring this particular image will
make the snow go away for the year, although the cold
weather is okay, I guess, just as long as the winds
don't get too strong.
happy birding,
GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:28:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Evan Houston <evanghouston at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Question about cormorants at Green Lake, Seattle
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Hi Tweeters,
Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I took a nice stroll around Green Lake in north Seattle. We entered the loop from the north using the sidewalk that goes by the sports fields and basketball courts, and there I saw probably 100+ Double-Crested Cormorants (DCCo) all congregated together on a small wooden platform about 30 feet offshore. Later during our walk, every single one of the DCCo's had left the platform, and had shifted to an amazingly concentrated flock nearshore in the southwestern section of the lake. It appears that they were feasting on some sort of fish bounty that was just in one small area.
I have walked around Green Lake a number of times in the past few years and have seen a few DCCo, but never such a large, tightly concentrated group. My question is: Are they feasting on some sort of natural phenomenon, or, as was suggested to me by a friend, does anyone know of a recent release of fish in Green Lake that they are taking of?
Several additional fun sightings around Green Lake were a few groups of Yellow-rumped Warblers flycatching at the water's edge, and 3 male Eurasian Wigeon together in one of the many groups of American Wigeon (I would have too look more closely at these before stating that they are all pure Eurasians).
Good birding,
Evan
Seattle, WA
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:06:44 -0700
From: Rick Hibpshman <hibpshman at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Montlake Fill, Seattle- Say's Phoebe
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A single Say's Phoebe seen near the green houses behind the Horticulture BuildingSome photos:
http://flickr.com/photos/crappywildlifephotography/2341637492/
http://flickr.com/photos/crappywildlifephotography/2340803617/
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:25:01 -0700
From: Benjamin Berkompas <speedpicker at gmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Vancouver Northern Shrike
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Hi everyone,
I birded around Vancouver Lake this morning (both the Shillapoo
wildlife area accessed by Fruit Valley Blvd. and LaFramboise St., and
the road to the park itself--just follow 4th Plain), and found a
Northern Shrike hunting from the bushes along the side of the road.
He was located about halfway between the park entrance and the end of
the road. Very beautiful little bird, and a lifer for me as well!
There are hundreds of ducks out there right now.
Benjamin Berkompas,
Yacolt WA
Other birds seen:
Double-crested Cormorant
Mallard
Ringneck (hundreds)
Am. Wigeon
N. Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup
Pintail
Wood Duck
Canada Goose
Am. Coot
Sandhill Crane
Great Blue Heron
BALD EAGLE
Red-tailed Hawk
Am. Kestrel
Western Scrub Jay
Am. Robin
Starling
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Am. Crow
Tree Swallow
Loon (seen out on the lake with binoculars, so I couldn't really
identify what kind)
Pie-billed Grebe
Western or Clarke's Grebe
N. Flicker
N. Shrike
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:26:02 -0700
From: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Parakeets at Seward Park, Seattle
To: "Andrea Wuenschel" <chyroptera at yahoo.com>, "Tweeters"
<tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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30 years ago the flock of presumed Mitred Conures (there are 2 other Conure
((Aratinga)) species that look very similar) had about 20 or 30 birds. We
now seem to be down to 3. It looks like the flock will be gone soon. On a
personal level I will be sad to see them go, but as an ecologist, I know
that if they were more successful they would likely eventually start
displacing existing native plant and/or animal species.
-Stewart
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From: Andrea Wuenschel
I was birding with a friend at Seward Park on the
morning of Sat, Mar 15, and was very surprised to
encounter 3 parrots.... Apparently
they are Mitred Conures (Mitred Parakeets), who are
regular visitors to the park according to
http://www.sewardpark.org/sewardpark/birds.html.
I haven't seen them at Seward before and had no idea
Seattle had its own population of feral parrots until
now.
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:54:25 -0700
From: "Clarence C. Lupo" <Gos at tds.net>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Need for Dead Bird Info
To: "Neens" <neens at wavecable.com>, <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Was the keel sharp?
Clarence
Onalaska, WA.
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From: Neens
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:11 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Need for Dead Bird Info
Hi Tweets!
I'm having computer issues, and therefore couldn't do a search or go into email archives; however, I need to know the info (I'm sure someone has it handy - I hope) on where to take dead birds.
Yesterday, I was most distressed to find a dead Cooper's Hawk in my backyard. No visible signs of injury - all feathers were fine, no blood, no obvious signs of battle/predator attack. He was on the ground in the middle of the yard, dead. I retrieved the bird, bagged it, and stowed it in the garage (brrr!).
If I can get the info to the place on Bainbridge Island that takes dead birds, I'd like to get it to them today. I'm really worried about this, the bird was small, and looks to be a mature adult.
This just really disturbs me, and I'm so bummed.
nina
neens at wavecable dot com
Bremerton
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:14:47 -0700
From: "Penny Koyama" <plkoyama at verizon.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] Fw: Thanks and info on Juv Sandhill Crane
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Tweets,
In case anyone wants that Sandhill, am forwarding this post to correct my Highway Info (19, not 20--hope no one is driving around lost!!) Sorry.
Penny Koyama, Bothell
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From: Diane Mulholland
To: plkoyama at verizon.net
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:26 PM
Subject: Thanks and info on Juv Sandhill Crane
Penny, Thanks so much for your post on the Juv. Sandhill Crane! Several of us have seen it today, picking and poking for food in the field near the Trumpeter Swans. I've had Sandhills fly over the house here, but this was my first to see on the ground, thanks to you!
The field is exactly as you described, but on Highway 19, not 20. I knew from your description where to go though. There has been a flock of Swans in that pasture for several years.
I can't post in Tweeters, but if you want to, you could post that it is still there.
Thanks again. It's people like you that make Tweeters so great.
Diane Mulholland
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:20:38 -0700
From: "Marv Breece" <mbreece at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] wigeons
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Last week, while birding in Kitsap County, I had the opportunity to photograph a female EURASIAN WIGEON. I just uploaded some wigeon images onto a pbase gallery that's still in process. There are comparison images of female AMERICAN WIGEON (gray head) and female EURASIAN WIGEON (brown head). Also images of each with their respective beau.
For those interested, the link is:
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/wigeons
Marv Breece
Seattle, WA
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:20:30 -0700
From: "LINDA PHILLIPS" <linda_phillips1252 at msn.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Cooper's Hawk and Red-breasted Sapsucker at
Wallace Swamp Creek Park
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Cc: Jill Stewart <jstewart at nsd.org>, Jean Phillips
<jphillips at chemithon.com>
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Happy Spring,
I heard a Sapsucker call a short distance away as I walked the trails of Wallace Swamp Creek Park. a moment later I heard the call again together with what seemed like all the birds in the park were yelling "HAWK WARNING!!!" Just then a Cooper's Hawk landed on a branch not more than 15 feet away from me and right at eye level and . In its talons was a Red-bellied Sapsucker (still alive very much ). The sapsucker crying and pecking at the hawk's breast and wing, put up a pretty good fight. The two of them struggled on the branch for 2-3 minutes before the hawk flew down to the ground where he could keep its balance. There he stood; wings slightly spread, grasping the woodpecker until all life was gone. All the while a chorus of chickadees, robins, crows, and sparrows scolded wildly.
Yesterday I couldn't bring myself to watch a video of a starling attacking a nest of baby martins but today I watched intently as this drama was played out in front of me. Once the sapsucker was dead the hawk flew off into the woods to eat lunch without an audience. Then everything was absolutely silent, when I looked around there wasn't a bird to be seen.
Linda Phillips
linda_phillips1252 at msn.com<mailto:linda_phillips1252 at msn.com>
Kenmore 98028-2616
Wallace Swamp Creek Park is 1 mile North of Bothell Way on 73rd Ave NE in Kenmore
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:01:04 +0000
From: debsstuff at comcast.net
Subject: [Tweeters] Pics from Nisqually yesterday
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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It was a bit chilly yesterday at Nisqually but it was still great being out. Lots of birds to watch and there were large flocks of geese and ducks flying in. I really wanted to see the owls and I appreciate the help to the person with the spotting scope that showed us where they were. I doubt that we would have seen them on our own.
Here's a link to a picture of the owls and a couple of others that I liked:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/DDLewis1/Harrier2.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/DDLewis1/PICT0071a.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/DDLewis1/woodduck.jpg
Have a good evening.
D.
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:08:06 -0700
From: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at msn.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] New Slaty-backed Gull photos
To: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Hello Tweeters,
In an earlier message I mention that on Saturday morning I saw the third
Cycle Slaty-backed Gull.It took me a while seeing this photos on the
computer convincing me that it really is the Third Cycle Gull
I also saw another Gull in the evening,but with bad lighting I think that
this was the same bird also.There are 6 new photos on the website.
http://www.pbase.com/godwit/sbgu
Cheers Ruth Sullivan
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:58:06 -0700
From: "Brian S. Jones" <brian-s-jones at comcast.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] Listing Software
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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I would like to know what listing software folks are using and especially if
you are using either a Palm OS device or a Pocket PC to record sightings in
the field and then syncing the sightings to a desktop pc when back from
afield. Brian
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:53:19 -0700
From: "Francis Wood" <fbwood at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] FW: spectacular Osprey photos
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Hello Tweeters,
This slide show was forwarded to me by friends in Cheney near
Spokane. The major dinner is rainbow trout. And there is one mallard if
you can spot it.
Good birding,
Fran Wood (male)
Madrona (Seattle)
fbwood at u.washington.edu
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:49:40 -0700
From: "Eric Kowalczyk" <aceros at mindspring.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Band-tailed pigeons
To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Living in Montlake near the Arboretum in Seattle since 1987: although infrequently, only last year did we begin getting Band-tailed pigeons (BTPI) at out bird feeder.
This year, this species is a regular at our Yankee Droll tube feeder. Yesterday we had 3 BTPI all perched at once on the round tray at the bottom of the feeder. They obviously were very crowded, but have adapted to feeding on the hulled sunflower seeds.
Just thought I would mention this, in case others have been seeing an increase in this attractive species in the Seattle area.
Eric Kowalczyk
Seattle
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Message: 15
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:14:21 -0800
From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] On holistic birding
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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I don't really want to get too deeply into the esoterica of what
I think Charlie and Cameron are talking about, except to say that
we old fogies understand what you're talking about more than you
give us credit for.
Anyone who owns a 2nd edition Peterson can see that ID by general
shape and impression is neither new or innovative. The longer
one looks at birds the less time one has to spend looking at them
to figure out what they are. We learn to see birds on the right
side of our brains. We build up pattern recognition sets that are
akin to the wiring we use for recognizing faces. We see all the
pieces together and we can do so with what some might say is mystical
speed and accuracy.
There has been an effort over the last 10 or so years to deconstruct
this ability and communicate it to others. That's where all this
gulls by structure stuff comes from and in my opinion it over-simplifies
a complex problem. And by complex problem I don't mean gull ID. I
mean teaching to the right side of the brain. We learn on the right
side of our brains best by doing, not by being told how to do. Charlie
and Cameron are good at holistic birding because they do it all the
time and they started at a young age. It makes perfect sense if you
have the skills. It's frustrating and abstruse if you don't.
They told me all this stuff in teacher school, but I didn't figure out
how to use until I'd been teaching for 5 or 6 years. You start with
the fundamentals and build to the intuitive.
--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com
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Message: 16
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:15:09 -0700
From: "alan roedell" <roedell at speakeasy.net>
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] FW: spectacular Osprey photos
To: "'Francis Wood'" <fbwood at u.washington.edu>,
<tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Tweeters,
Thank you, Fran Wood (male) for the fantastic slideshow. It was almost
better than being there.
Good birding, Alan Roedell, Seattle roedell at speakeasy.net
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Wood
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:53 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] FW: spectacular Osprey photos
Hello Tweeters,
This slide show was forwarded to me by friends in Cheney near
Spokane. The major dinner is rainbow trout. And there is one mallard if
you can spot it.
Good birding,
Fran Wood (male)
Madrona (Seattle)
fbwood at u.washington.edu
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Message: 17
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:36:53 -0700
From: "hughbirder at earthlink.net" <hughbirder at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] Late weekend report
To: "Tweeters E-mail" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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My wife and I spent the weekend exploring, birding and sightseeing from Blaine down to Stanwood. Some of the highlights were 61 Bald Eagles, including 11 immatures on the ground, and 3 in the air, north of Boe Road. I believe they were feeding on the afterbirth from a calf birth. Two Long-tailed Ducks in Drayton Harbor seen from Semiahmoo Spit. Over 50 Brant seen from Bayview State Park. Walking the Squires Lake trail which starts about 1.5 miles north of Alger. A nice trail thru woods along the lake and to beaver ponds. Two Short-eared Owls at the end of Rawlins Road. Thousands of Snow Geese in Skagit Valley and hundreds of Trumpeter Swans. A Great Horned Owl on the nest at the Skagit Wildlife Area.
Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:37:29 +0000
From: mgmerrill at comcast.net
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] FW: spectacular Osprey photos
To: "Francis Wood" <fbwood at u.washington.edu>,
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I would love to know more about the equipment and settings used to get these shots, and the location. What great work, thanks for sharing the link Mr. Wood.
Michael Merrill
Spring Lake, WA
MGMerrillatComcastdotnet
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From: "Francis Wood" <fbwood at u.washington.edu>
> Hello Tweeters,
> This slide show was forwarded to me by friends in Cheney near
> Spokane. The major dinner is rainbow trout. And there is one mallard if
> you can spot it.
> Good birding,
> Fran Wood (male)
> Madrona (Seattle)
> fbwood at u.washington.edu
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> Check this on your internet!
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Message: 19
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:56:28 -0700
From: "Janet Carroll" <junco at seanet.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Shorebird fly over
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I was watching out my window at the birds at my feeder this morning. A large
bird with a long thick bill and wide wings cruised over my trees heading
north. I had about a 3 second look and was too slow getting outside to see
it again. I live about half a mile from the shoreline on a ridge above the
Sound. My feeling was that it might have been a Willet. Sorry I saw no
other features. Anyone have any thoughts about this sighting?
I have seen Townsend's warblers in the alder trees for the past couple of
days. Two golden-crowned kinglets were foraging in the same area.
For the person with the band-tailed pigeons, I used to have 16 pigeons come
into my feeder, but since a female Cooper's hawk took up residence in the
woods around my house, only two have been coming in and just the past few
days. (Haven't seen the Cooper's for about a week, but now there is a
red-tailed hawk around. I happened to see it eating some bird on a branch
in the distance this morning and when I later went to the tree, I could see
a few white feathers, but not enough for me to make an identification.)
Janet Carroll
Mukilteo WA
junco at seanet.com
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