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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020, 368 pages. The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. by Jonathan C.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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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. Billerman, and I.J. Hummingbirds (Trochilidae), version 1.0.

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Administrative Procedure for Birders: Duck Stamp Rulemaking

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Duck Stamp sales have provided more then $800 million dollars to protect more than 5.7 Because many non-hunters purchase Duck Stamps to conserve waterfowl and other wildlife, there was substantial opposition to this proposal , even as many acknowledged the tremendous contributions that hunters have made to waterfowl conservation.

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