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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. Sections are clearly marked with bold type and the font size is just right–not too big, not too small.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. Like other books that have published lately (the Crossley Guides, by one of Karlson’s The Shorebird Guide co-authors, come immediately to mind), it aims to provide an alternative, maybe new, way of thinking about bird identification. Kosslyn and G.

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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

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Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. When you read stories in major newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek, be wary of simplification, bias, and a tendency to support traditional views indifferent to animals’ interests.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. That’s right – birds eating clay. Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project.

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A Problem with Gulls

10,000 Birds

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. He caught the itch, so to speak, when he arrived at Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca, New York, and he refined his birding skills with the Lab of Ornithologys Spring Field Ornithology course. Wicked, right? This wiki looks good too.] I am clearly not.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Chris Cooper was (and still is) a well-known, valued member of the New York City birding community, a member of the board of directors of NYC Audubon and at the time one of the few black faces seen with binoculars in the Ramble. It is not what I expected, totally. Raw honesty is felt throughout.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. And, rage and frustration. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!).