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ONE OF NEW YORK CITY’S LITTLE-known and mostly unseen wonders is that, in the dark of night during spring and fall, millions of birds fly directly over Manhattan on a migration path that their ancestors have been traveling for millennia. For some, th
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EVERY MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND, my mom and I join a small knot of bird and flower enthusiasts at the West Virginia Wildflower Pilgrimage. Their pace felt agonizingly slow when I first attended. As a hiker, I wanted to cover miles—not vainly search trees—
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IT WAS CERTAINLY NOT WHAT I expected to find while walking home from the candy store. “Look!” my son said, pointing to a black-and-white feathered lump on the sidewalk. “Use the app.” I opened Seek, which we typically point at mushrooms on hikes, and

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