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  • Other El Cuco Wildlife

    Matt thinks this is the same bird as the other post.

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    He probably didn’t notice that there were multiple species of bird in that post

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    This one is larger and ibisy

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    Here you can see the itty bitty bird standing behind the big ibisy bird.

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    There are multiple species of bird in this post too.

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    The bird in the first picture is not ibisy

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    And these birds definitely aren’t ibisy

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    And these aren’t birds at all.

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    They are crabs.

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    These volcanos are not made by birds

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    They are made by snails.

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    When water gets in their holes they fountain it out, and the wet sand comes with it.

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    Goodbye.

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  • El Cuco Vultures

    There were vultures at El Cuco.

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    They were photogenic.

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    They did not have babies

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    But Kerri still took a lot of pictures

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    Even though they’re not cute

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    Or even particularly pretty.

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    But don’t tell them that

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    I wouldn’t want to be on their bad side.

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    They hung out at the estuary

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    Scavenging stuff

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    We’re not really sure what

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    Their beaks always seemed to be empty

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    And they certainly didn’t seem happy

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    So maybe they weren’t very successful

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    Which must be frustrating

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    Even ugly things shouldn’t be hungry

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    As long as they’re not trying to eat me

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    A vulture wouldn’t try to eat me would it?

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    It had snails to peck at.

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  • El Cuco Sunsets

    The sun set in El Cuco

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    Every night

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    We took a lot of pictures of it.

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    Because we needed photographic evidence

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    That the world was still turning

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    And spinning

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    Look, a selfie

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    This is a sunrise

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    Which is like a sunset

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    But backwards

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    They are harder to see, because you have to be awake.

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  • Teeny Tiny El Cuco Shore Birds

    This is a cute bird

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    It is looking for snails

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    To eat

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    Or maybe small fish

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    It is definitely a hunter

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    Even though it is itty bitty

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    This is a different itty bitty bird

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    That is also hopping along the shore

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    Hunting snails

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    And small fish

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    There may be more than two kinds of bird in this post

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    Kerri is way too busy to check

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    And if she looked it up and told you this was a black beaked brown butted sandpiper

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    You wouldn’t know what that was

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    And we’d have to tell you

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    It’s a small bird that hops along the shore

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    Eating snails and small fish.

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  • El Cuco Big Birds

    El Cuco had herons

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    Some looked like the ones at home.

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    But some were different.

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    They also had egrets.

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    With yellow feet that apparently look like fishies to fishies

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    You would think that fishies would know better.

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    This is another funny looking heron.

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    This pelican is not funny looking

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    He is looking at you

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    And you are not funny.

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    This looks like a small bird but it’s not.

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