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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career. It’s not a bad idea.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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Hawks At A Distance: A Timely Classic

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My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. This is probably why I number so many hawk books in my collection.

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Lake Bindegolly National Park

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We collected information on National Parks and there were several that we had not previously heard of. There was also evidence of the damage that feral pigs can do all along the trail and along the water’s edge and we soon came across a small group of them. Feral pigs. Turtle shell. Birds at Lake Bindegolly.

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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. I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Let me ponder it while I’m picking up two gulls and an egret.”.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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Our guides were researchers from Callisto, patient and always smiling Yannis Tsanakis (above) and Maria Petridou with her infectious laugh and stories of her Sun Bear and Jaguar research experiences. At one occasion, during the hike Tsanakis collected wild mushrooms and in a restaurant, asked the chef to prepare those for us.

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