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Life, Love, Slugs & Snails

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EDIT: If you just want to see the video without the story behind it just scroll to the bottom of the post. I'm the type of guy who normally tries to remain stoic and hold my emotions in, it just generally takes a lot for me to cry, but the tears came flooding out the moment i heard she was going to be ok.

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Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home Coming to Orlando

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With strikingly honest interviews and rare footage demonstrating the emotional lives and intense family bonds of animals most often viewed as living commodities, PEACEABLE KINGDOM: THE JOURNEY HOME shatters stereotypical notions of farmers, farm life, and perhaps most surprisingly, farm animals themselves.

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Herpetology Vs. Ornithology

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Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. 4 Responses to “Herpetology Vs. Ornithology&# tai haku Mar 2nd, 2011 at 8:18 am as a herper/birder I’m going through conflicting emotions! Wicked, right?

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

10,000 Birds

I read Chris’s story and saw his video a couple of hours after his sister made it public on social media (I had been Facebook friends with Chris for several years, though I had never met him face-to-face). It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I remember that day. It’s powerful writing.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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Some of this adventure is captured by Mullin on video (he was masquerading as a National Geographic photographer), a part of which can be seen on YouTube. a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family.

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

10,000 Birds

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. how guides and drivers are found and where they live and what their families and homes look like, birder friends who accompany him on some legs of his quest, and the quirky people he ends up sharing beers with, in bars in huts on stilts.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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’ To get a feeling for how difficult it is to tie a Victorian fly like the Durham Ranger, look up a video on the Internet, it’s impressive. Can’t make it out? Here it is as typed out in The Feather Thief (p.