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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. Preferably, they should be wearing colors of purple, white, and gold, the branded hues of their movement. This is where Boase excels. I did often wonder while reading the book whether the result equaled the effort.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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It is helpful to have a sample paper. Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

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for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ). The website then hastens to add that “Unfortunately, there isn’t much scientific research on the poop of the upland buzzard” I bet some ornithology students do not find this particularly unfortunate. Some ornithological research is surprisingly simple.

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