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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!) In some ways his story is familiar to a lot of birders: the outdoors was both recreation and refuge for him, his family imbued him with a love of learning and an appreciation for the earth.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

10,000 Birds

If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012. This case has strongly fascinated the publicity, which led to publishing the book about this awkward family – Tiger-Pups.

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