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

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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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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

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There’s a remarkably similar photo, of the nest of a west coast swallow, the Violet-green, in this July 2014 post (the third one down.)). He does, though, offer a hunch – that the resident pair are “protecting sky space.”).

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. It is a deep intellectual and artistic exercise, which authentically captures my passion and emotion while watching birds. By Louis-Jean Germain Influenced by his mother, Louis-Jean Germain has long been interested in art, and in recent years, he has become an avid painter of Asian birds.

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