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May 1989 Issue
May 1989 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Containing Japan
    James Fallows
  • The Road Through Miyama
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Paintingsok Noel Coward
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • More Like Us: Making America Great Again
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Acrostic No. 46
    Dorothy Osborne
  • The Puzzler
    Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Birding by the Numbers

In pursuit of a record number of bird species seen in a single year

By Stu Stuller
May 1989 Issue
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