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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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The species is listed as Vulnerable – the estimated number of individuals is 4600-5100 (HBW), of which about 2000 winter on Hokkaido. There is a book on the species, but it is out of print and seems impossible to find even in online secondhand bookstores. Where is the movie about his life then? Back to the eagle.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

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Every bird book seems to be about the west coast this month!) I was not planning to do either, but I was going to Catalina Island with my daughter, Sarah, and her boyfriend, Todd, and the hour-long boat ride there and back sounded like an excellent opportunity to try this book out in the field. This is a small book, 56 pages long.

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

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He likes books too, which made him the ideal reviewer for Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. Agonizing quandaries concerning invasive species are well-known to wildlife biologists. Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”.

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Flock to Marion

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Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. Marion has a fascinating history with invasive species.

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The Why of Ferrets

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The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. You couldn’t see it. John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.

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24 Hours (or so) in Kuala Lumpur

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Whether or not species are lifers or not in Asia for me is actually something of a guess, as my note-taking when I visited the region 10 years earlier could charitably be described as sloppy, and while I have some lists I lost a lot of sighting.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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The theft of some “dead birds” captures his imagination, and by the end of the book we’ve traveled with him around the world as he talks to famous fly tiers,* the Tring police, and Rist himself, seeking for the truth behind the story. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!). Mostly adult males.