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Come for the cranberries, stay for the purple gallinule

Weekly Bird Report on WCAI

Oct 21, 20264:16Science & Medicine

It’s a juvenile Purple Gallinule with ginormous feet, an appetite for spiders and no fear of people, and it’s the rarest thing in a Cape Cod cranberry bog this fall. Find out what brought it to West Yarmouth and why the...

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