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

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Chris’s recent New York Times article, “ Three Years After a Fateful Day in Central Park, Birding Continues to Change My Life ,” adapted from this book, encapsulates that essence. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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and then the life and writings of Harriet Mann Miller, a New York State native who under the name Olive Thorne Miller wrote eleven books and hundreds of articles about nature in the mid- and late 19th century. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?) Rogers can.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. by Marc Bekoff.

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The Marvelous Self-Awareness of Elephants: Insights into their Intelligent Minds

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Elephants are one of the most fascinating creatures on the planet, renowned for their incredible memory and emotional intelligence. In this article, we'll explore the fascinating research on elephant self-awareness, how it's been tested, and what it tells us about their amazing minds.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. It is a deep intellectual and artistic exercise, which authentically captures my passion and emotion while watching birds. This period offered me the time to write this article.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope. I think this is unique in the Big Year Narrative genre and I appreciate it.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

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The best moments are when the film simply lets the images do the work and we watch the eagles soar, hunt, and take care of their nest and their totally adorable eaglet, composer David Majzlin’s original music echoing our emotions of wonder. Personally, I would prefer simply the sounds of the rainforest.) Tampos, G., & Salvador, D.

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