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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I wish I had read this book. The book was originally published in 2006 as Galápagos: A Natural History with John Kricher as the sole author. Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit.

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Offshore Sea Life: East Coast, Birds of Pennsylvania, & Texas Birds: Three Books, Three Reviews

10,000 Birds

It’s time for some short book reviews. Two books are part of series I’ve reviewed previously (and you may want to reread those posts for more detailed info), one is a handbook that I’ve been wanting to review for a long time, but thought that a shorter piece would work better than the long ones I always seem to end up doing here.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds , by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with a mission. The numbers, as detailed in this book, are alarming: the horseshoe crab harvest grew from less than 100,000 in 1992 to over 2.5 million in the late 1990’s.

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Orca Whale Article Appears in Salon

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In fact, the animal research supporter in my book club said that very same thing. (By Tags: Sea World captivity killer whales Orcas. The argument that they have "plenty of room" has been made about elephants too. By the way, she works for a company that does clinical testing for drug companies. Animals are commodities for her.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. A Grateful Whale. In December 2005 a 50-foot, 50-ton, female humpback whale got tangled in crab lines and was in danger of drowning.

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

10,000 Birds

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. Who can resist penguins and whales?

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny. photo by John Huba.