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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

I am not sure if this is totally true in the widest sense, especially when it comes to the question of WHY birds migrate (I’m asked this question constantly by beginning birders and would love an answer that doesn’t involve a garble of words about magnetic fields, genetics, and scarcity of resources). THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

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There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research. A valuable new resource has recently entered the information superhighway. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideasā€”migration, habitat, research, documentation, community. Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. of Natural Resources and by Nate. There is also an excellent index.

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Birding According to ChatGPT, Part II

10,000 Birds

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. Birders who embark on a big year often dedicate a significant amount of time, effort, and resources to travel to different habitats, explore various locations, and encounter a wide range of bird species.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The result is a really good read, a suspenseful true-crime narrative that reads like a novel yet also probes real-life questions focused on the purpose of natural history museum collections and the ethics of closely gated “hobbyist” communities. And, well researched. Frustrated with the U.S.