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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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For Rogers, the finding of the sparrow is not just about the rarity of the find or the decline of breeding Henslow’s Sparrows in New York State, though she is proud of the first and concerned about the second. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?) Rogers can.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

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I was concerned and horrified that this happened in my city and astonished when this seemingly local story became national then international news. In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

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In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Ring-billed Gull - yes indeed.

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