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Audubon’s Footsteps

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Clavruel’s book is not a day-by-day recreation of Audubon’s various itineraries, but rather a loose investigation of “regions and birds unknown to me,” he says, prompted by his “desire to meet and sketch people who live each day in contact with nature.” Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently.

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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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On the northern birding calendar, October is a time for sparrows, cool weather, and tired fall leaves. In Costa Rica, the tenth month is when birds pass through in droves. but there are other birds, many stopping to stay, many others moving to South America. In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published.

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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Timothy Barksdale is a birder/biologist turned filmmaker , passionately pursuing birds with a television camera for the last 24 years. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US.

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Why You Should See The Big Year When It Opens

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He’s got a different view on how bird watchers should respond to The Big Year than the one Corey recently expressed here. I am already on record that the story will effectively change birding forever. However, I reacted totally differently. We have to take baby steps to promote our way of life. Do not hesitate, Do not Pass Go.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

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Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. In Missouri in 1948. … This post originally appeared on 10,000 Birds on 10 May 2011 during Wood-Warbler Week. we are hosting Extinction Week here on 10,000 Birds from 7 September to 13 September.

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Listening to a Continent Sing

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Mark Gamin, a Cleveland lawyer, likes both birds and books, which makes him an ideal birding book reviewer. He previously reviewed Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer for 10,000 Birds. Each bird, for Kroodsma, is “an individual with something to say, not just someone to be identified.”

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