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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

Here’s the kind of woman she is: when she got home after her first day of roller derby bootcamp, she was so sore she had to crawl up her stairs to get into a hot bath, where she cried for an hour. Read the book: it makes perfect sense.) ” Her book is both informative and fun, a good read. .'”

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Pet Massage for Your Furry Loved One

4 The Love Of Animals

By the time you make it home, you’re absolutely spent and your shoulders are sore. Pet Massage for Your Furry Loved One originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on July 19, 2010. Rubbernecking traffic made you an hour late for work, and the boss made you stay late for a pointless meeting.

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

Animal Person

When I agreed to read and review Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING (Harper 2010), the regal Charles Hobson Booger, III was still with us. When it arrived, the day after Charles died, I'll admit to wanting to burn it. Essentially, I was afraid that the pain would never stop. And the crying would never stop.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

.” This lengthy essay was originally published in The New Yorker (“in somewhat different form,” as the “Credits” section says) in 2005 and can also be found in Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (FSG, 2010).

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. It gives one to wonder why this designation was made. He and his mate were one of the few successful pairs in the whole eastern flock!

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