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

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Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. Marybeth Lima tells her birding and personal stories in straightforward, honest language that never skimps on detail (sometimes a bit too much detail) but never overflows on emotion. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp. Map by Lynn Hathaway. by Marybeth Lima.

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Paradise Regained

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By 2019, I couldn’t take it any more, and I stopped visiting Pino Real. And, eventually, one whole hilltop was fenced, logged, and flattened. For what purpose, I still do not know.) I actually denounced this all with the Michoacan forestry authorities, but nothing changed. This cabin is not new. But the denuded hillsides are.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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This is a topic fraught with the danger of cliche, but Rogers knows how to use the essay form to tell a good story and convey the magic of emotional and worldview change. In Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure , Susan Fox Rogers offers a series of elegantly written essays on learning to bird.

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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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It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off. The experience emboldened me to revisit some of my older images, this snipe seen in January 2019 is clearly a Wilson’s Snipe as evidenced by the extensive black on its tertials. How can one not love that face?

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan.

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