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Minnesota, a Winter Owl Wonderland

10,000 Birds

As for myself, in January of 2013, I finally took a much anticipated trip up to their world of ice and snow in northeastern Minnesota in search of them. I could hardly contain my excitement as I gazed at a Great Gray Owl and watched it hunt through someone else’s scope.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). Lost Birds looks at photographic representations of 28 species, 21 of which are birds.

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