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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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With two of North America’s major flyways, Mississippi and Central, overhead, and with almost 400 miles of coastline Louisiana is one of those states where you can see Eastern and Western birds and a hell of a lot of shorebirds and waterfowl. Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp.

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Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review

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She drops a hint or two early on, but you wouldn’t really know it until the second half of the book: Zickefoose and her family were undergoing a fair amount of emotional, life-change trauma themselves, of several kinds, during Jemima’s residency. September 2019, $25. Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay. 5 1/2/X 8 3/4.

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Sniping: The Final Frontier?

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During these months every Wilson’s Snipe would be busy with breeding in northern North America. It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off. In fact, there are no recorded sightings of any snipes on Tobago between May – July. On Trinidad it took me some more time until I saw my first snipe.

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