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Best Bird of the Year 2014

10,000 Birds

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Once endangered, they lead happy, protected lives, oblivious to the tourists who love them. What was yours?

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

10,000 Birds

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. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) 3) George W. Romeo Vasquez, who led it, is an alumnus of the United States' School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).

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