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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. He couldn’t understand. Neither can I. No other scars were visible.

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

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Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The Bronx also has a special place in birding history.

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A Bird Sings in Camden

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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. Birds can do that. 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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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. 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.,

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Inspiration / The Bluebird by John Burroughs The Bluebird by John Burroughs By Corey • March 7, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share John Burroughs should be as well known as Henry David Thoreau. Get yours today!

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Empathy Among Elephants. They still remembered one another when they were inadvertently reunited.

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