Books Campaign Hunters Species 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. more than there really was to see!” (p.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
And the book is about much more, ripple effects from what happens when part of a living thing becomes the central ingredient to a highly visual, social, profitable business. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. So, yes, there’s plenty enough information about migration in the book to justify the subtitle. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. Kaufman is a terrific writer and A Season on the Wind is a terrific book.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. This is the birding adventure book supreme. I’m reading a book about a man who is doing a Pitta Big Year,” I say. One must “out-think” the bird. And leeches.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. With the exception of species that number in the hundreds, conservation biologists are not as concerned with the fates of individual animals, it is only when such fates of many individuals are added up do they begin to worry.
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