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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

10,000 Birds

This week’s wine is the 2016 Lobo e Falcão Reserva from the 17 th -century estate of Quinta do Casal Branco , located in the Tejo region upriver from Lisbon. A falconer and his bird from the Mosaico de Cavaleiro in Mértola, possibly the oldest depiction of falconry in Iberia.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Birder, Defined

10,000 Birds

Since the election in 2016, Merriam-Webster has experienced something of a cultural resurgence. (It is perhaps worth mentioning that Stamper twice notes the mockingbird that nested outside the window of her home office, though not in flattering terms.).

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