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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. He’s also Professor Emeritus of Biology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text.,

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A A massage therapist for an hour every morning, then I wouldn’t be so bitchy,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. The gap is in high school, though there are a few teaching in high school, including Steve Maguire in Massachusetts.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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Elizabeth Bradfield’s “Buried Birds” muses on seabirds as a way of understanding feelings of difference, giving one of the book’s finest quotes: “We resonate with certain animals, I believe, because they are physical embodiment of an answer we are seeking.

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Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen

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So here it is, the review of Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen. This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right? So what is one to think of the former?

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A Day in Anchorage

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I’ve even paid a few calls to Massachusetts in the dead of winter for finches and owls. What an incredible experience. Because that’s what animals do in Alaska. I’ve been fortunate enough to see a lot of the Lower 48. I’ve tackled Texas, collected in California, fooled around in Florida.

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The New Neotropical Companion: A Book Review by a Lover of the Neotropics

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The first edition, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics , was published in 1989. Kricher has expanded subject coverage and updated, revised, re-arranged, and rewritten text. is remarkable.