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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Molly Hashimoto is an illustrator, birder, and teacher (she teaches plein air watercolor painting and printmaking at nature institutes near her native Seattle), and in Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide she masterfully brings all skills into play. It’s an interesting way to teach within a book.

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Year of the Eagle

10,000 Birds

His other books told the story of the cycle of water and chronicled life of waterfowl in the Seattle Arboretum. After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. located across a large lake from Seattle.

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