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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

10,000 Birds

Phoebe, Liam and I went down to work (and play) in January 2011 at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , and it was the highlight of our winter. Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. Get a load of the mandible on the granddaddy skimmer to the far right. But here you go.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. Dawn Publications, March 2011. Success is not easily achieved.