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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

10,000 Birds

This land has gone through extensive ecosystem destruction from farming cattle and soybeans. Gonzales the greater the size of soybean farming fields and our expectations to see birds on this road trip had quickly died and turned into a boring flat-land ride. My first heat thumping experience came when I saw the Crested Hornero.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. In fact, my main criticism of The Kirtland’s Warbler is that we don’t hear enough about how the book itself was written. photo by Lynn C.

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The Book That Saved Derrick Jensen's Life

Animal Person

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

Third, Hawks in Flight was primarily illustrated by David Sibley’s excellent black-and-white drawings, supplemented with a collection of black-and-white photographs in the back of the book. There really is nothing like this book. Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.) It is a good visual summary to the ½-paged detailed discussion.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. But for a while one constant in his life was his grandfather’s farm, a far-off stretch of land in Comanche County, Texas. He came for the hawks.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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“Everyone feels like an expert on their dog,&# says Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist at Barnard College and author of the new book Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. Horowitz and other scientists are now running experiments to determine what a behavior, like a kiss, really means.

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Birding in the UK after twenty two years

10,000 Birds

Our first birding experiences with UK ducks after so long was frustrating when they all seemed to be tail up! Maybe there is book out there? Even a Great Egret hardly raises an eyebrow nowadays! Farmers were encouraged to adjust their farming habits to prevent further population decline. Little Egrets and ducks.

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