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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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So, Yellow Rail is included (2 dead birds and one live one are documented for the study area), but Ash-throated Flycatcher, a vagrant found in areas nearby as well as in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island, but not in the study area, is not. . This is a project that clearly spanned decades. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Prologue presents the two contrasting obsessions, a narrative that intrigues with promises of more details to come. This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. I can’t end this review without talking about how impressed I am by Johnson’s research and documentation.