Army Birding

Richard's article in the recent news letter about beers named after birds gave me the inspiration to make the following map:

http://bit.ly/1tpeV4Y or http://bit.ly/1q5zAql

Hope you enjoy

Regards

Tony

P.S. Maybe we could expand it to be world wide

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