10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Lovette (2020). A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I had hoped for more. Billerman, and I.J. In Birds of the World (S.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

And the most outlandish–Anayoliy, the sweet, strange hermit and Katkov, possibly the most bizarre, annoying field assistant of all time–are drawn with empathy and an urge to understand, an emphasis on the human and not the caricature. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020, 368 pages. Who will play Slaght in the film?

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Owls Russia Fish Research 131