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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

10,000 Birds

Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. There’s enough scientific data collected already ( eBird illustrated checklist ), it is not as if we really need more. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990. Yet, the site is quite ruined.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

10,000 Birds

Hearing and seeing a bluebird bring to his mind the process of tapping trees and boiling the sap collected down to syrup. He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

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

10,000 Birds

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. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Jonas D’Abronzo.