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Old Posted Sep 17, 2013, 9:30 PM
quashlo quashlo is offline
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Maybe hard to believe given its urban context, but Lake Merritt was the first wildlife refuge in the U.S. You can find a lot of birds here, particularly during the winter months—aside from run-of-the-mill Canada geese, mallards, gulls, egrets, cormorants, and coots, there's also pelicans (both brown and white), scaups, canvasbacks, goldeneyes, and buffleheads. Here's some night herons:















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