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Friday, February 1, 2019
A bird worth watching Shaw Media/Tom Sistak
Beth Chan, of the Illinois Raptor Center, shows “Kenny,” a male bald eagle Saturday at the Illinois Waterway Visitors Center as part of John James Audubon’s program “The Washington Eagle, and other Raptors I Have Known” during the annual Eagle Watch Weekend. SEE MORE PHOTOS ON PAGE 5. Vol. 145 No. 9
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