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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope. ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species). The guide covers 265 of Maine’s 461 bird species: common nesting species, common migrants, and wintering birds.

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My Favorite Mexican Birdsongs

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(The White-tipped Dove is actually called, in Spanish, the Paloma Arroyera , or “Gully Dove” And sorry, I have yet to get a photo of this shy species. Like most of the species on this list, this tiny highland bird prefers to make its presence know by singing, rather than by being seen. The site is much-degraded now.)

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My Subtropical Bird Garden

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But I would never have imagined how important it would be to my emotional well-being to have a bird-friendly garden during lockdown. Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Mine are mostly cutting-collected natives.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Cocker writes about the species within each family with a literary specificity softened by a tone of conversational patience.

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Sniping: The Final Frontier?

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Out of the approximately 26 species of snipes worldwide, two have been recorded on Trinidad. The trouble begins with the recognition of the fact that both species of snipe were formerly part of a single species – Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ). Freshly collected and en route to some R&R.

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