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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences. Rogers can.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp. Map by Lynn Hathaway. by Marybeth Lima.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Press, 2011). Press, 2020, 304p. This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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On the other hand, Phoebe Snetsinger’s memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time , becomes tedious because of her lack of emotional disclosure. As I was finishing up this review, I discovered that Princeton University Press will be bringing out a U.S. Press, Fall 2012. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect. And, good news!

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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*. But let me tell you something: gulls are not what they would like to make you think they are. Gulls are deep and meaningful creatures. Get yours today!

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. It is a deep intellectual and artistic exercise, which authentically captures my passion and emotion while watching birds. Hallé, ‘Atlas Poetic Botanic’, edition MIT Press, 2018).

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