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

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Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters. But special.

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Terror from the Trees

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If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. North America may currently feel very smug, safe and sound. Yes, there is a bird in this picture. Of course you have already spotted it.

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

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A description of the parenting habits of Emperor Penguins begins the lengthy chapter, “Family Matters,” about Chris’s difficult, intense relationship with his father. But before that, it was these feathered dreams that would carry me across the globe on adventures, in search of birds in faraway places. (p.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. However, I spent the last few days of the year on the posh island of Sylt in Germany’s far north, my first visit to the North Sea propper since 1989.

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