Mon.Sep 08, 2014

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How To Have A Very Bad Dog (and a giveaway)!

4 The Love Of Animals

'This is a hilarious little book all about how to ruin your dog! Or as the cover says, how to ruin your pooch deliberately and with skill! It covers everything, from how to choose your future bad dog, to what types of accessories to get for it. And yes, what it’s really doing is showing you everything NOT to do, while teaching the right things in a hilarious way.

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A Remembrance of Birds Past: The Lost Bird Project

10,000 Birds

'It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the car down, to catch as much of its cool beauty as I could. What was this solitary stranger greeting me at the edge of the John James Audubon Center in Mill Grove, Pa., the epicenter of U.S. birding? It turned out that I was gazing at a ghost. The smooth mass of bronze (photographed at right by Jordan Mann) was a stylized version of a Great Auk —a bird that no longer exists.

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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

10,000 Birds

'Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands. This fact alone is not at all surprising. After all, that is how ornithology was done at the time. It was duly processed and labeled and in his notes he wrote the following: Sturnus. L 7 1/2 inch. Color a light brownish black all over, the feathers edged round with a lighter shade of brown.

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