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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly. ” Her book is both informative and fun, a good read. But this is more than a coffee table book.

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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

10,000 Birds

Back in the day, information about this bird would have been conveyed by phone trees and cumbersome Rare Bird Alert phone message systems, many of which were only updated once a week. Texting and the internet allows information to spread very, very quickly. I think it is difficult to deny, however, that eBird is a very good thing.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Here’s the petition. She drew this petition up to ask the USFWS to reconsider the clause in its management plan that calls for hunting Eastern sandhill cranes.

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