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Your Best Birds of the Year for 2012

10,000 Birds

Attila Steiner, who I was lucky enough to meet while I was in Hungary , was ecstatic to see a rare rail in Ghana: It was my last afternoon in Ankasa Reserve, Ghana. I have chronicled the experience on my blog. This past June I was invited along by the Edmonton Nature Club on a field trip to a Piping Plover breeding site.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. Henry, as Kivell affectionately admits, may not be “the sharpest knife in the drawer,&# but compared to other animals, he’s a true scholar.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They mimic snakes, a claim to fame that goes all the way back to Aristotle’s History of Animals. Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. Yet, The Wryneck does not read like a literature review.