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Birders are Freeloaders

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Deadbeats To clarify, our more generous brothers and sisters on the extractive side of the wildlife appreciation line pay for licenses, excise taxes, and of course, the mighty Duck Stamp. It’s that damnable Duck Stamp. birding community promote the annual purchase of Duck Stamps. Birders pay bupkis. When the U.S.

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

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He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.