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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. Prairie Pothole Region of the United States , primary in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. Your prior trips will inform your birding travel planning too.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute. I want to read about owls, not people.”

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. Cats migrate out of the parks and live in areas where the researchers found the cats to be both fatter and less diseased. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

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The specific geographic area covered is “east of the western boundaries of Ontario, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana”; the eastern United States and Canada is known for its diversity of odonates. Although designed as a field guide, it is a hefty book, 376 pages long, covering 336 species.