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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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I greatly enjoyed reading these articles on diverse topics such as suet, nyjer seed, the development of humming-bird feeders, rarities at feeders, wild bird feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, and, importantly, “funding for birds and wildlife.” The story of Duncraft is a good example. Scott’s was fined $12.5 Margaret A.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Photography & Ethics & Me.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. He contributes to several birding and conservation projects on the web, but his home online is Search and Serendipity , a birding blog he started in 2005. They are all primarily fish-eaters adapted for life in the water and the air.

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