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

10,000 Birds

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. Read the book: it makes perfect sense.)

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A Let me ponder it while I’m picking up two gulls and an egret.”.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of May 2021)

10,000 Birds

I have it on good authority that many of you have already ridden the roller coaster of this season’s migration madness and are now recovering from strained eyes, sore necks, and bloated lists. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. .”