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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The book doesn’t always succeed in its goals.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

10,000 Birds

Most of those birds are staying north this year, but you can always remember that amazing winter finch season by popping open a bottle of the 2018 Castellare di Castellina Chianti Classico , whose label presents a handsome White-winged Crossbill. This is a book that will be read with pleasure and amazement by both birders and nonbirders.

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