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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

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… because my husband and I have done some migrating of our own, from Chicago to Philadelphia, over the past few weeks, and bringing 10,000 Birds readers the freshest and best bird news sadly had to take a back seat to packing, driving, unpacking, and furiously scouring Craigslist for Ikea furniture.

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US Government Shutdown Affects Birders (and Birds, Too)

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Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. Disclosure: the White-throated Sparrows and Brown Creepers have started invading Chicago this week, and on my morning rounds I spotted a first-of-season Dark-eyed Junco. parks and preserves. Photo by the National Park Service).

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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I first encountered Molly Hashimoto’s bird art in California. 118-119) was split into two species in 2016–California Scrub-Jay and Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay. (I Lederer (U of Chicago Press, Sept. There are a couple of factual errors: Charley Harper does not come from Alaska (p. Western Scrub-Jay (pp.

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Pet Love Closes its Doors in Beverly Hills

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The Beverly Center, an upscale shopping mall in Beverly Hills, California, has announced it will terminate Pet Love’s lease sometime in the next few months. If a pet store can be closed down in the iconic Beverly Center, it can happen anywhere in the country – New York, Chicago, Boston and other large metro areas.” This is awesome.

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Birds and music

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No Eagles here as I think they are crap (even though Hotel California is probably one of the most popular songs in Chinese karaoke places). Somehow, the exclusive focus on tunes at the expense of rhythm in these Chinese ballads leaves me a bit empty. A Barn Swallow , Nanhui, Shanghai. Then, we get to songs mentioning unspecific birds.

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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

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Videos illustrating some of the action seen from the “SEC” can be found on a special page on the University of Chicago Press website, linking to 14 examples of penguin and other Antarctic mammal behavior. Kooyman and Jim Mastro, with a Foreword by Jessica Ulrika Meir University of Chicago Press, Nov. And that may be o.k.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Every meal, for me, is a celebration of life.