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Mink, muskrat, nutria and otter, sad to include, trapped in the lovely marshes of Maryland’s Dorchester Country, in numbers second only to Louisiana. Sky-darkening flocks of migrating and wintering waterfowl, in the thickest concentrations of the Atlantic flyway.
William Warner, Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
How can I interpret “in the thickest concentrations”? Does it mean in the flyway waterfowl is more thickly concentrated than any other animals?
book mango 418 Does it mean in the flyway waterfowl is more thickly concentrated than any other animals? No. If you look at a map of the Atlantic Flyway that shows by means of color gradient the numbers of waterfowl that pass over every point over the course of the year, using the spectrum from blue as the fewest to red as the most, Dorchester County, Maryland, will be in the reddest part.
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book mango 418Does it mean in the flyway waterfowl is more thickly concentrated than any other animals?
No. If you look at a map of the Atlantic Flyway that shows by means of color gradient the numbers of waterfowl that pass over every point over the course of the year, using the spectrum from blue as the fewest to red as the most, Dorchester County, Maryla