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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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Her essays are structured pieces of writing with layers of personal stories over literature over memories, punctuated with emotions, a little bit of philosophizing, and humor. She teaches essay writing as a writing professor at Bard College, but teaching doesn’t always mean one can do it, we all know that. Rogers can.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money. Change in Attitude. “I

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. We simply refuse to squee. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.

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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

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He was drawn to their innocence, and their pure emotions. One day, he sees one of the pups run into the road and get hit by a car, dying immediately right in front of him. Copyright © 2013 Carey Neesley with Michael Levin, author of Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldier’s Beloved Dogs.

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