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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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Prairie Falcon Attack on a Northern Shoveler

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One is his focus on ethical photography. The other is tied to this focus on ethical photography. My time with this falcon was an experience I won’t soon forget. To me, two things really set Ron apart from many other nature photographers. The fact that I was shooting from my pickup helped me get close.

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I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain. NEWKIRK President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., Kristof describes “happy” cows that are loved “like children” by an organic dairy farmer.

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing.

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

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I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine. Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2012. Just a little.

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The Australian Bird Guide: A Review

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Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). These “vignettes” are sadly limited due to space considerations. Bruce Richardson.

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Our experience on the ground confirms your reporting that this trade is increasingly tied to organized crime. 4, 2012 The writer is vice president for species conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society. 4) is a chilling reminder of just how high the stakes have become today for elephants in the wild. ELIZABETH L.