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Quest for the Whistling Warbler

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About halfway back to where we began, fortunes shifted. A notable and groundbreaking photograph, although it may not win any photography awards. From the vegetation overhead, the distinctive crescendo of finely whistled notes cascaded on our weary but still expectant ears like fresh, cool water on parched lips.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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These are the words that define so much of our conversations about the natural world today. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.” I’d love to read a book about your adventures in Guatemala studying Yellow-naped Amazons, Sophie!) Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of November 2015?

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It’s just that Birdwatch Magazine is running its Birders’ Choice Awards 2015 and we are–for the first time in our 12-year history–on the ballot for Blog of the Year. How about you? The deadline for voting is coming quickly, so the time for action is now! Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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One good thing about birding during a pandemic–the forced restrictions on place and time translate into more time to observe what birds do. Her bird books are Birds by the Shore (previously Notes from the Shore, 1995 and re-issued 2019) and the award-winning The Genius of Birds (2016), which focused on studies of bird cognition.

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Bette Midler is “mad” about birds

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I’m absolutely mad about them — I have been my whole life,” she told a packed ballroom at New York City’s Plaza Hotel last Thursday at a National Audubon Society dinner to honor two leading conservationists. Bette Midler , conservationist and star of screen and stage, has a thing for birds. “I love birds.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2016)

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Sadly, the award must be posthumous, as birders at the pond later on Saturday watched the one-eyed wonder get killed by an opportunistic Peregrine Falcon. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Susie’s Hope Movie Giveaway

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You might know Susie as the winner of the 2014 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards. Susie has a special story, and a movie has been made all about it. We have a special giveaway today. We have a DVD … Continue reading → The post Susie’s Hope Movie Giveaway appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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