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Over 12,000 birds identified during Christmas bird count
SOME SPECIES WERE not found in abundance during the Christmas Bird Count, like this singular Peregrine Falcon sighted by a team on Dec. 14.
Photo by Amy Earl
December 30, 2025
Birders clocked 67 different species during the Middlebury Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, Dec. 14.
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