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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. Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species.

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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. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ. ISBN-10 : 1501750917; ISBN-13 : 978-1501750915.

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

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And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. Press, Fall 2012. And mosquitos.

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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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