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

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What extraordinary birds penguins are: physically, they remind us of ourselves, so we think we understand their behaviors, but, as the authors say, “their private life is as complex and mysterious as that of any wild animal.” Dragan]: Europe’s Birds: An Identification Guide , by Hume, Still, Swash, and Harrop is a photographic guide.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Press, 2020, 304p. A sense of ourselves in the world that is nearly inexpressible.” When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

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27 / February 18, 2020 / ISBN 978132860441-5 (hardcover) / ISBN 9781328603517 (ebook). What one would give to walk the woods with eyes as acute as his, and curiosity as unceasing! White Feathers: The Nesting Lives of Tree Swallows , by Bernd Heinrich / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 232 pp., $27

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