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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences. Rogers can.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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Her previous book is Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children (2013), about a 15-year project developing partnerships between LSU students and the Baton Rouge public school community. So, it’s no surprise that the personalities, work, and contributions of the birders of Louisiana take up.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. No one wished for diamonds, fast cars, or penthouse apartments.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Random House UK, September 2013. About 300 stories are used throughout the book. A few words about the back of the book material.

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