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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is what makes this memoir more than a collection of anecdotes; it’s our opportunity to understand the different parts that make the whole of a black gay man negotiating the natural world and the more challenging, the adjacent “real” world. .’ Raw honesty is felt throughout. It’s powerful writing.

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Collaborative List – July 2018

10,000 Birds

Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives. Rusty Blackbird – Euphagus carolinus. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. And so to summer.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus. Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus.

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