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The Coney Island Creek — popular among bird-watchers, fishermen, schoolchildren and even those who perform baptisms — attracts nearly 250 bird species, some of them rarities like the white-winged dove and the thick-billed murre that fly all the way from the Arctic.

Other times she would share sweet dispatches from her quarantine life, like a trip to her eye doctor or her first time seeing a white-winged dove, the bird she helped make famous with “Edge of Seventeen.”

It cost $300 per day this past fall for white-winged dove hunting in South Texas.

Barksdale started with recordings of the white-winged dove, a still-living relative of the passenger pigeon.

The white-winged dove is nearly one-half larger than the common mourning dove.