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How Birders Are Like Bushmen

10,000 Birds

Field guides are usually more helpful regarding this former, but Jon Young’s expert analysis and practical instruction in interpreting bird behavior should definitely supercharge the latter. Very few of our readers reside in the Kalahari or live a subsistence lifestyle, but we all share something rather profound.

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Flogging A New Patch

10,000 Birds

All birders know what a patch is, and I’m going to do all of us a favor and spare you the definition of a patch and what it means’s to it’s “owner”…it is known. You are welcome.

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On Mainstreaming Veganism

Animal Person

This was a "lifestyle" event that had a "health" angle (both in parenthesis because they promoted a certain country-club lifestyle and the event was held at a country club, and a certain definition of health), and it was pleasantly surprising to have anyone asking about veganism.

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Just Two Lessons Learned for Today

Animal Person

I think it's great, given how hostile the world is to our minority opinions and lifestyle, that there are safe places, even if those safe places have ranting as their modus operandi. I guess this is more about definitive statements. Saying that only nonviolence of a certain definition will lead to your goal isn't accurate.

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Pets Can Change Anyone

4 The Love Of Animals

Tara is a freelance writer who primarily enjoys writing about her passion for her pets as well as her endeavors to live a more eco-friendly, sustainable lifestyle. They lived outside, and they definitely didn’t have any reason to set foot in the house. We are happy to have a guest post today from author Tara Alley. Did you know this?

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Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen

10,000 Birds

This is very bad news for a group that is largely nocturnal and has adapted to a secretive lifestyle, and is thus best detected by its tracks and signs. I definitely recommend it to naturalists in North America and East Asia as well. I also wish to emphasize that this is not only a book for European (and British…) naturalists.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. If you have not bought the 2008, smaller edition and need to choose between the two, I definitely recommend this newer, larger Anniversary edition.