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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

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Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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Reflecting on a Year of Less Birding

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For many women, pregnancy gives them a burst of energy, the joy of creating new life the boost they need to continue their daily activities while growing a human inside them. Marks National Wildlife Refuge replenished by naturalist spirit, but remained all I could manage. So cheers to 2020, and more birding adventures!

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbertā€“An Author Interview

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Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Trying to stop her is her furious husband and the authorities, and helping her is a smitten tech guy and an underground railroad of fellow wildlife rescuers. Itā€™s a funny, suspenseful road trip with lots of wildlife. And birders!

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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is ā€œ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.ā€. Why are birds a good proxy for broader human-wildlife interactions?

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the Worldā€™s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the Worldā€™s Largest Owlā€“A Book Review

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Even the most ‘ordinary’–the field coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Siberian Tiger Project, the villagers who stop by for vodka–become fully dimensional in just a few sentences. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020, 368 pages. Slaght has a wonderful talent for depicting people.

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