Tue.Jun 02, 2020

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Be careful how you Google ‘bird of paradise’! Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two films (one of which was pre-Code and apparently created a sensation), eleven novels, a romance novel series, an animated children’s film, socks, and no less than nine coloring books. It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family.

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Taking Time to #SketchWithSibley

10,000 Birds

David Sibley’s sketch of an Atlantic Puffin. I sat down at my dining room table, its wooden surface covered by a wrinkled white tablecloth scattered with work-from-home items; my laptops, notebooks, a speaker, various dishes and coffee mugs. Clearing a space, I retrieved my field notebook – untouched since April of 2018 – and flipped to a brand new page.

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