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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” A few words about the back of the book material.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. So say Kevin T. The result is a different kind of book. It is not a textbook, though its aim is clearly instructional.

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Citizen Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBird

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I rely on my library of cookbooks rather than Google for recipes, and prefer my cassettes, CDs, and LPs to my iTunes collection. Steve Kelling from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology gave the keynote talk, “The Birder Effect: Birding, Science, and Conservation.” Birding citizen science Conservation eBird'

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