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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2020)

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Every weekend seems to be wild from the perspective of human history. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Corey and I caught plenty of restless migrants at Fort Tilden this weekend.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2020)

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But birds don’t seem to care about what ails us humans. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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A World Turned Upside Down

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I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. Our 2020 drought taught me that any body of water, no matter how small, might host these “drought refugees” in dry years.

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. He’s also Professor Emeritus of Biology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. They complement Kricher’s text.,

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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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But he pretty much drops the subject, except for a final Chapter 9, “My Transition,” when he addresses it briefly, and says “I could write a book about these experiences alone.” Pathfinder UK, 2020, 220 pp., McMullan had some sort of spiritual awakening in Bosnia when he saw a woman weeping outside her destroyed home. UK, $18.99

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here! I do wish there was more about research on female bird song.

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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong

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It is written in English, mostly, or a form of English anyway, and on first encounter the book and its language is weird, intriguing, puzzling, and beautiful in a way outside the normal realm of experience. To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? 27, March 10, 2020. By Donald Kroodsma. Boston, New York.

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