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A Bird Sings in Camden

10,000 Birds

In 2004, 2005, and 2009, it was ranked as the most dangerous city in the United States and in 2008 there were 2,333 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. But Camden, poor Camden, is what I want to focus on here. Camden is the poster child for the post industrial collapse of American urban areas.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

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He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. In December 2005 a 50-foot, 50-ton, female humpback whale got tangled in crab lines and was in danger of drowning. And outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a dog rescued an abandoned baby by placing him safely among her own newborn puppies.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

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Having said that, my sentimental journey started without a plan, more by accident, on an AGM of BirdLife Slovenia in Ljubljana in 2005. The road was new, the only sign of the recent times were bullet holes in a few abandoned houses, but that was a rare sight. No other scars were visible.

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