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Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review

10,000 Birds

H is for Hawk was a hit for Helen Macdonald a few years back; and Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien, The Parrot Who Owns Me by Joanna Burger; and Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg are, each of them, delightful books as well. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.

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Corporate Branding of Birds for Conservation: A Modest Proposal

10,000 Birds

” Glancing at the man who’d interrupted, I remembered exactly how his family first made their money and decided to move ahead quickly. And he does already have an entire genus of parrots named after his company for free.” That species could use a cash infusion right away.” No brand recognition at all.”

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

10,000 Birds

Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat?

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