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Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention

Animal Person

And that's when I get e-mails like this: Dear Mary I’m Caroline and I’m one of the Supporter Services team members for Compassion in World Farming. Having read your blogs I thought you might like to hear about Compassion in World Farming’s Bake with Compassion fundraising week. But that was back in 2006. Eat More Veal?

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Packing for a birding trip

10,000 Birds

Don’t forget all the cables, chargers, backup batteries and international electrical adapters! The field guide I always bring as a paper book, and there’s no substitute for snooping through the pages. Again, I prefer paper over e-books. Also a field notebook and pens.

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The Future of Birding Field Guides is Digital

10,000 Birds

I can’t get a good feel for them (I still prefer my book version). With ipods and iphones you can carry a lot more information than multiple books. Digital guides still have to reach a better caliber (in my opinion) to really make books obsolete however. While there are a few (nat geo, sibley, etc.)