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Two James Spirits: Doctor Bird Jamaica Rum

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In the midst of a global pandemic, medical professionals have been heralded as heroes, with some even rising to the status of pop culture icons – even as some supposedly advanced nations have been plummeting into the depths of anti-science superstition lately.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

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And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect. © 2023 Tony Angell; © 2023 Mark E. Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!)

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Rename All Birds Named After White People

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John Porter McCown, who shot the first recorded specimen of this species known to Euro-American science, was a Confederate general, a high-ranking officer in the insurrection led by the southern plantocracy to preserve and expand Slavery and the mode of white supremacy which it supported.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Where do Cook’s Petrels go to forage in the summer? And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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Use it or lose it?

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I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. A traditionally managed fishery in the Cook Islands, or a the carefully managed collection of shearwater chicks in New Zealand by the Maori. Conservation conservation science hunting logging' Schools, libraries, roads, hospitals, and the like.

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! There is a bit of science news. The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. But that’s not the most interesting thing I’ve seen recently. This was on the coast of the Yucatan, if that means anything.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

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This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book. This is their first title that is not a cook or crafts book, and I hope there will be more.

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