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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. million words in books published in 1800, by 2019, its usage was down to once every 5 million words, according to the Google Books Ngram Viewer). Smith was basically a massive jerk.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 2)

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The book hastens to assure us that “we may safely assume that it referred only to bright plumage” While larger, the White-eared Honeyeater seems to follow a somewhat similar color scheme. ” Though I suspect that this may just be some elderly Australian men trying to pin their loss of hair on a poor bird.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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Fortunately, with a prescience that’s a little scary, David Allen Sibley has created a book perfect for beginning birders (and the rest of us): What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Dogs can differentiate dilutions of 1 part per billion, follow faint odor trails, and are 10,000 times more sensitive than humans to certain odors.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation.