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The Extreme Raptor Weekend Round-Up

10,000 Birds

On October 15-16th, 2011 Nikon Birding teamed up with Hawk Mountain and Cabela’s to host a blow-out weekend focusing on raptors. This weekend was meant to draw kids into the Hamburg, PA Cabela’s to experience birds in a up-close and personal kind of way. These kids must have felt as if they were on Jeopardy or something.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. White article on bird feeding stations. In 1954, art editor Arthur Lougee asked Harper to illustrate an E.B.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. The Taínos named the birds Iguacas, after their call. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. The birds thrive.