10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

.” I never did read about them, and eventually the memory of Sammy Blue Jay, Polly Woodchuck, Reddy Fox, and the rest faded to the back of my mind along with the details of Struggle Beneath the Sea and Sharon, Lois, and Bram. Reviews author book review books Thornton W. Burgess , is now out from Schiffer Publishing.

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Woodchucks Buffalo Massachusetts Fox 168

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area. Scope of Book. Read the Introduction! I like it.

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North America Sparrows America United States 143

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

And, although these days I like to switch it around, sometimes using National Geographic or Stokes or a specialty guide or my Sibley phone app, that creased, dog-eared, red library tape bound book is still the field guide I keep in my car or slip into my suitcase for a trip to anywhere east of the Rockies.

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North America 2003 Birds America 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

So last night, for reasons that seemed good to me at the time, I decided to watch the pilot of the new Kurtzman/Orci show Sleepy Hollow (Mondays, 9/8 Central on Fox.)

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Eagles Bald Eagle Fox Cows 180

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 24, 2012

Eliot’s whimsical letters to his godchildren which became “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” an archive that much later became the inspiration for the musical CATS by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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Los Angeles Cats Neutering Tnr 100

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Midge, the eight-pound Chihuahua and smallest police dog, who has appeared on the Rachel Ray Show, Fox and Friends, CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets. Be sure to check out Lisa Rogak’s other great book, The Dogs of War, which takes a look into the lives of military dogs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2012

”) I put the stereo on repeat, played the screech-owl track that was on the cd included with Jim Burns’ book North American Owls: Journey Through A Shadowed World , hit record on the recorder and left the room to warm up some coffee. We found icterids, but in much-reduced numbers.

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Owls 2007 New York Fox 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

An Exaltation of Larks is at the same time, a music album, a collective tribute to the English language in book form and a Facebook page. But I am still foxed in finding a name for a group of Skylarks which was the reason for looking in the first place.

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Hunting Collecting Groups Fox 151

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The opening beautifully encapsulates the essence of the book. The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Do I need to say anything more?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

“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. They decided to study foxes, which are closely related to wolves and dogs. Ones that came up to the scientists did.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

[If you are looking for my first-Tuesday-of-the-month book review, it will be in this spot next week. A Spotted-Towhee and a Thick-billed Fox Sparrow lurked in the bushes (another Catherine spot). For now, I present a story of an excellent day''s birding on a visit to Los Angeles last week.]. It was 7:04am when we saw our target bird.

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers California Birds 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The NYC owls have little to do with the book in front of me except that it too is about birds and people. Donald Kroodsa’s “The Hour (or Two) Before the Dawn” is an adapted chapter from his book Listening to a Continent Sing (PUP, 2016). But–is that it? Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ. Press, 2020, 304p.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 181

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Its currency is ideas, and though it is those who act—those who write letters, circulate petitions, demonstrate, lobby, disrupt a fox hunt, refuse to dissect an animal or to use one in "practice surgery," or are active in other ways—though these are the persons who make a mark on a day-to-day basis, history shows that ideas do make a difference.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Los Angeles 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it to a new edition between the trips. I clearly needed a mammal book. Despite depicting 540 species/56 families, it is a lightweight book of 173 pages, easy to pack and carry.

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Asia Mammals Sri Lanka Bhutan 174

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. He also rescued birds who flew into our windows and, on one occasion, a bird who’d been caught and dropped in front of my office by a local red fox. Photo by Paul Huber. Raven Justice?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” Compassionate conservation describes an emerging field of interest which Bekoff describes in his book Rewilding Our Hearts : “Compassionate conservation has become a popular new phrase and mind-set over the past few years, one that has increasingly informed global efforts to conserve species and restore ecosystems.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. Lewin’s Honeyeater is named after John Lewin, a British illustrator who after traveling to Australia in 1800 authored the first illustrated book to be engraved and printed in Australia.

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

There are so many damn birds there is even a book about the birds of the gardens in the gift store, and while you are unlikely to see everything in that book, there is plenty to be getting on with. Of course, you don’t have to worry about not seeing a single bird. The Forest Canary is one of several that can be found in the area.

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Africa Birds South Africa Mongoose 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

The single resource for today’s quiz is a book I just purchased. It is not a new book, about 6 years old. Here are the clues that I have gleaned from this new book: 1. This identification is usually a no-brainer. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

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2011 North America Deer America 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. Fox in Socks, Cat in the Hat) out loud. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

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2011 Fowl Deer Cats 240

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Our fearless leader was author, naturalist, and master bander Scott Weidensaul , whose book about migration – Living on the Wind – was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. What’s it called when birds return to the same nesting spot?” he asked the group, as we settled in a small clearing and set up the nets.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 249

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

The preface to the book reads like he would nowadays be regarded as a lumper, not a splitter: “Man hat es mir von verschiedenen Seiten her zum Vorwurf machen wollen, dass ich bei der systematischen Einteilung meiner Voegel im vorliegenden Werke nicht den neueren Naturphilosophen gefolgt sei. . –

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