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Day 308: Leaving the Mainland
November 05, 2015 —
Noah fends off bloodsuckers while searching for Sri Lanka's endemics.
Noah Strycker is a writer, photographer, and adventurer. In 2015 he embarked on an international Big Year, and blogged all about it at audubon.org/features/birding-without-borders.