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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Her essays are structured pieces of writing with layers of personal stories over literature over memories, punctuated with emotions, a little bit of philosophizing, and humor. Her first birding book, When Birds are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers (2020), is a smartly curated collection of essays from new and experienced writers.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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. And, how they betrayed that trust, stealing eggs for years and, possibly even worse, falsifying research data.

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