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A Gentlemen’s Big Day’s Birding

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Called The Big Bird Race , it tells the story of how my team, representing Country Life magazine , recorded 155 species in 24 hours in East Anglia (Suffolk and Norfolk). There was a good variety of ducks, including Tufted, Gadwall and Shoveler, plus our first waders of the day. They scored 144.

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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

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So if you come to Spring Wings, and you’d be well served if you do, get ready to see lots and lots of shorebirds and ducks and waders. Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. Don’t try this at home, kids.

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

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As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. Although Ford Times was a company magazine, distributed free to Ford customers, it had a wide circulation, claiming up to 8 million subscribers, and published notable writers and artists.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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Two of my favorite essays, by ornithologist Donna Dittman and Birding magazine associate editor Ioana Seritan, relate the joys of museum work–working with skins, creating skins–an aspect of birding that doesn’t get enough attention. In the next essay, J.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Nonetheless, I visited some excellent habitats, especially the flooded wetlands, and saw some good birds,” wrote the UK Birdwatch Magazine journalist Mike Unwin of his bird tour of northern Serbia 15 years ago.

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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review

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Many 10,000 Birds readers know author (and New Jersey resident) Rick Wright from his activities as writer, blogger , book editor of ABA’s Birding magazine, past department editor of Birding and Winging It, WINGS tour leader, speaker, and explicator of bird history.