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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of May 2018?

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Unfortunately, family commitments are killing my Big Day or any other kind of birding this weekend. Last year’s Global Big Day accounted for at least 65% of all the bird species on the planet. Are you going to help beat that tally this weekend? I’ll be in NYC hearing migrants flying high above me.

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“The Wise Hours” — a review

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Readers of this site already know about this extraordinary place from Dragan’s evocative post of November 2018, “ The 701 Long-eared Owls of Kikinda.”) An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or When Harry Met Mercedes

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I am taking a sip of coffee, my eyes following an impossibly colourful Kill-Bill ( Keel-billed) Toucan , flying against the background of the Irazu Volcano slopes and, farther to the right, water-vapour ‘smoking’ Turrialba Volcano on the horizon. And yes, sometime in 2018, Mercedes and Harry started dating.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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The guide has been expertly, even lovingly revised, expanded and updated (as the authors’ names indicate, this is largely a family affair). To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi. 28, 2018, [link]. McKnight and Vera B.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The Pankhursts and their organization were not interested in saving birds; they saw the SPB mission as a distraction. It is reproduced in “Mrs.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?).

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Collaborative list – August 2018

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Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? 30 Aug 2018. 29 Aug 2018. 29 Aug 2018. 29 Aug 2018. 26 Aug 2018. 26 Aug 2018. 26 Aug 2018. 26 Aug 2018. 25 Aug 2018. 24 Aug 2018. 23 Aug 2018. 22 Aug 2018. 20 Aug 2018.

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