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

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But the other subject of A Season on the Wind is Kaufman’s adopted state – or, more precisely, one corner of it, the one that includes the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (“BSBO”) and Magee Marsh Wildlife Area , just west of Toledo. (Kaufman’s wife, Kimberly Kaufman, is the BSBO’s Executive Director.). (One

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Birders are Freeloaders

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Baicich breaks it down in his Great Birding Projects newsletter: …expenditures for some important bird-watching items have gone up considerably since 2006. For example, since 2006, binocular and spotting scope expenditures have increased from $654 million to $919 million (up 40%). billion to almost $4.1 billion (up 21%).

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Awkward Fostering

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It turns out that people are not the only ones, who can adopt children – animals are good at this as well. One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Julie contributes three-minute natural history commentaries to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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