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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science. But I think the title says it all and will warn away anyone who gets upset by descriptions or images of dead or injured birds.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. He started working on Birds and People in January 2007, according to the book’s web site, and the project ultimately took six years. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.). He received a B.A.

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