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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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The purple feather of the title is an ostrich plume (now housed in the Museum of London), a symbol of Emmeline’s crusade and personal style (if you saw the 2015 film Suffragette , Meryl Streep, playing Pankhurst, is wearing a hat full purple feathers). Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. This is good stuff.

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The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

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You may have read about them in the Wall Street Journal , the BBC Wildlife Magazine , or perhaps watched them on BBC, who filmed them here twice, for the Planet Earth II in 2015 and for the One Planet in 2018. Actually, the numbers are even higher.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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old angel factory area. Dull-mantled Antbird – Sipia laemosticta. Arenal–Peninsula road (shortcut to dam). 06 Mar 2016. Zeledon’s Antbird – Hafferia zeledoni. 14 May 2016. Bicolored Antbird – Gymnopithys bicolor. Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 29 Jan 2016. Spotted Antbird – Hylophylax naevioides. 04 Mar 2016.

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