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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

10,000 Birds

But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. Not only has he authored multiple field guides, and prose works, too (such as the classic coming-of-age-as-a-birder story, Kingbird Highway ).

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Happy 12th Birthday Violet Rays!

Animal Person

She was adopted immediately, but returned almost as quickly because the people didn't realize how inconvenient diabetes can be. We spent the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005 getting fired by vet after vet. He told me to stop going to the vet because that's what was killing Violet Rays. Violet was just under four-years old.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

Having said that, my sentimental journey started without a plan, more by accident, on an AGM of BirdLife Slovenia in Ljubljana in 2005. A few days after my trip, a news item in the local media attracted my attention: near Sarajevo, a father and a son got killed while cutting firewood in a minefield. Hence, I had to adopt a new one.

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