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A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World

10,000 Birds

As the subtitle implies, this appreciation drives the bulk of A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World. His prose is elegant and vivid without shading to purple or neglecting to communicate actual facts. A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World by Paul A. Johnsgard and Thomas D.

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The First Swallow-tail of Spring

10,000 Birds

Florida is perhaps the one place in the United States where you can rack up a pretty great list of birds, including some of North America’s most impressive species, simply by walking down the sidewalk for an hour or so. That was largely due to the vagaries of a single rental car and two young children, but it wasn’t so bad.

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The Dracula Bird

10,000 Birds

This species was once restricted to North America’s Great Plains, where they followed herds of American Bison, eating both the seeds in their dung and the creatures that bison’s trampling brought into the open. And that represents an enormous number of parents from other species neglecting their own young.

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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

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July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I read this chapter, “In a Happy Place,” while I myself was birding during migration and totally identified with his description of neglecting everything–laundry, friends, exercise, and for me a book review–because… birds. The final chapter gives some insight into Chris’s life post-Central-Park-incident.

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The Winter of our Discontent

10,000 Birds

But soon they’ll all depart, perhaps the Peregrines already have, racing Winter’s advance, waiting her out in South America before that biological imperative pushes them back home to the cliffs of Arctic Bay. It is not a good time to be a first year gull hanging about the outflow of the water lake. No shorebirds remain.

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The Queen

10,000 Birds

However, he neglected to shut the top of the box, and off she flew, her legs bound with green tape. The very excited response was that she had been banded as a fledgling in 1983, which made her, at 27 years and 9 months of age, the second oldest living wild Red-tailed hawk ever recovered in all of North America.

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