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Another Flyer Chase Mystery Cache

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BrianDiane: Kudos, and thanks, to Daco&Ellora for both finding this lonely cache and for advising that one of the needed flyers is no longer listed on the roster linked in the cache description. Time to retire this aged avian. Thanks to all who took it on.

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Hidden : 11/1/2016
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Oh dear – I ran out of my meds, and the next thing I know I’m working on yet another of that much-revered (sorry – much–reviled) series of “______ Chase” caches.  I found myself reviewing my 15 “chase” caches to see if there was a property for a new “chase” cache that was not covered by any of them.  I found there were 4 missing properties.


I then reviewed all the bird species listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_common_name and learned that I’d have to do two new bird chase caches if I wanted to cover all four missing properties.

One of the birds is the “cedar waxwing,” which covers one of the missing properties, but I’ll leave that one for a possible future “chase” cache.

The flyer of this cache is a “triple hitter” – it covers all three of the remaining missing properties.

Once you identify this flyer, determine the alpha-sum (A=1, B=2, etc.) of its common name, of its scientific name and of the language it would likely speak if it were a talking bird. Doubling the sum of these three sums will give you the distance in meters and the bearing in mils True (360 degrees = 6400 mils) to the cache from the posted coordinates.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

gur qvtvgny ebbgf bs gur pbzzba anzr naq gur fpvragvsvp anzr bs guvf oveq ner obgu 1

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)