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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

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of Chicago Press, 2014). The book is listed in the University of Chicago Press as the first in an “Earth Day” series , described as a series of short books offering “twenty-four chapters, corresponding to twenty-four hour-long windows to witness the diversity of life.” Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!)

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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This is all in a day’s work and a typical morning here at the Tambopata Research Center in the Madre de Dios district of Peru where, on behalf of the conservation agency Earthwatch Institute , I have come to volunteer for two weeks for the Tambopata Macaw Project. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

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from Princeton University Press (directly from their website or from online book stores) and in Europe from the South Georgia Heritage Trust website. Photographs used with permission of Princeton University Press and the South Georgia Heritage Trust. The book is reasonably priced and can be purchased in the U.S. 368 color illus.

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