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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Shorebird identification takes time and is often stressful, there’s heat glare and bugs and drones and dogs and humans. Unlike many of my friends, I have been slow to master the art of instantly picking out White-rumps, locating the Stilts, and–forget about differentiating between Short-billed and Long-billed Dowitchers!

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The book doesn’t always succeed in its goals.

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