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The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study by Scott Rashid

10,000 Birds

He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park. As with many of the books I’ve seen from Schiffer Publishing, the lavish illustrations here are one of the book’s great strengths. The book’s weaknesses are mainly in the organization of the text.

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German Birding Blitz

10,000 Birds

At least Europe has some great bird species, so this past June my fiancé, Jess, and I booked our trip to Deutschland, for our first trip overseas, where I would focus on birds and she castles, towns, and culture. Your author watching a Hawfinch instead of the castle Now it was time to research the trip.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.