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2017 Bird Images

10,000 Birds

For the last several years, I have produced a small run of calendars for my fiends and family. Then the culling process begins. While I am not going to post all twelve, here are my favorite 6 images ( including the feature image above) from the first 10 months of 2016. The best 12 images of the previous year. Least Grebe.

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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.