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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature

10,000 Birds

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. the hits keep coming.

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

10,000 Birds

It was July of 2012. I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. In October of 2012, the Institute for Bird Populations released “ A Conservation Strategy for the Black-Backed Woodpecker in California 3.”

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Disneynature Chimpanzee

4 The Love Of Animals

Celebrate Earth Day, April 20, 2012, by seeing the latest Disneynature film, True-Life Adventure, CHIMPANZEE! The money will help to protect chimpanzees and their habitats, now and into the future. CHIMPANZEE is a story of family bonds, individual triumph, and extraordinary personalities of the intelligent chimps.

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Reviewing 2011 – My Year in Birds

10,000 Birds

I begin 2012 with 284 birds on my Queens Life List , 478 birds on my ABA Life List , and 1,048 birds on my World Life List. The Tufted Puffins at Protection Island in Washington State. Will 2012 be as kind a year to me as 2011? Check back to see how my 2012 Year List grows ! Who wouldn’t want to see this bird?

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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

10,000 Birds

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. Portillo Padua’s previous documentary, the 2012 Diario a Tres Voces, was well reviewed and made the festival circuit, but it was of the creative, personal documentary subspecies.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

However very few birders ever venture to areas off this well-beaten track, so with this in mind, I decided to explore a fascinating but ornithologically little known corner of Ethiopia in January 2012, to see what surprises awaited me. As the sky turned rosy with dawn, we stopped for some excellent additions to our burgeoning bird list.

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Pied Oystercatcher parenting

10,000 Birds

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. There was little movement by the family during the heat of the day except to fly to the shoreline for a drink and to cool their feet.

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