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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

E-bird data up to November 2017 was used to update migrational pattern data and “for locating obscure but locally significant records that otherwise might never have seen the light of day” (p. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. It’s a very mixed chapter. Another big year memoir? I love reading all of the above.

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Hotspur’s Revenge: A Review of Three Books

10,000 Birds

Now, there are still 10 million of them there but, due in part to a population dip after 1970, it is, in the reign of the second Elizabeth, illegal to kill them intentionally. The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic. What’s magic about 1970?

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