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We become desensitized to the common sounds around us—car alarms, chattering squirrels, the mechanical functions of modern living kicking on and off throughout the day. If you had asked me a week ago ...

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Pennsylvania sits in a kind of crossroads zone for birdlife, where northern forest species mingle with birds more common to the Mid-Atlantic. That overlap becomes especially noticeable in winter. As ...