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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

” But also: “Delisted,” “Growing Up,” “Second Chances,” “No Tags.” ” But also: “Delisted,” “Growing Up,” “Second Chances,” “No Tags.” My only wish is that the book included photographs. Endangered. Extinction.

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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting. That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. One assumes Iceland, but there’s no proof.

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

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I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. All of this BS by medical researchers must be challenged.

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New Book on Ethics of Meat-Eating

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I'm trying to come up with a book for my book club about animal rights. One is a huge supporter of animal research. Tags: meat. What do I choose? All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. I don't want anything too radical and was thinking about Dominion by Matthew Scully.

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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

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We received an email about a new book being released by Lantern Books. Rory Freedman, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Skinny Bitch, proclaims “If you want to create a better world, read this book!” Tags: advocacy. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change."

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park.

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