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Cow Birds

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The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads. Now a Senior Leader with WINGS, Rick was a department editor at Birding from 2004 to 2008, editor of Winging It from 2005 to 2007 and currently writes Aimophila Adventures. Thanks for visiting!

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. ” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.”

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