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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. ©2012 Donna L.

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises.

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

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They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al.

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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This is not your ordinary reference book, though it was cited as one of the best reference sources of 2014 by Library Journal. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. There is also a great deal of biological and ecological information encapsulated within De Roy’s experiences.

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