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| | Naples Daily News: Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | It was the last week of May on St. Paul Island, the largest of the tiny Pribilof Islands, about 300 miles west of the Alaskan mainland in the Bering Sea, and for bird-watchers that means only one thing: Asian vagrants. |
 | | A good west wind would blow prize Siberian rarities like Far Eastern curlew, common snipe, eyebrowed thrush, and Siberian rubythroat hundreds of miles east of their intended migration routes. |
 | | And, with any luck, the exhausted birds would drop from the sky within range of our binoculars and scopes, pose long enough for us to capture them with our high-powered telephoto lenses, and then vanish back into the low gray sky before anyone else had a chance to spot them. |
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