On Saturday morning, my alarm sounded at 3:45 a.m. and I rose out of bed in order to take the three-hour drive to Sutherland Reservoir to “twitch” a Brown Pelican. For non-birders, “twitching” is a British birding term meaning to chase after a previously located (usually rare) bird. Brown Pelicans are typically found in coastal areas but birds occasionally wander inland. The Brown Pelican I was chasing was found by Stephen J. Dinsmore and Kevin Murphy on 26 December 2014. Nebraska’s …
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