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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. In retrospect, it kind of makes me wonder what image the organizers who booked the hotel for me had of German academic visitors … So much for my quasi-madeleine moment, though of course less emotionally attractive than the one described by Mr. Proust. Or speluncaphobia?

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

10,000 Birds

There have been three books written about Pale Male and 2 movies made about him, and saying that he was the bird that sparked my birding obsession makes me feel like I am living out an urban cliché. That wholeness is missing here, probably because it is not clear exactly what is the book’s purpose. The truth is that I was.

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