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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly. This is a topic fraught with the danger of cliche, but Rogers knows how to use the essay form to tell a good story and convey the magic of emotional and worldview change.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Back to birds. Then, there are raptors. of its hunts are successful.

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That Awkward Moment With Feral Cats and Family

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But I don’t agree with the supplemental feeding that happens with feral cats–if you’re gonna call them wildlife, treat them as such. She made the best decision she could for those cats with the information she was given by that organization, which wasn’t the best information.

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The Art of Bird Camp

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The process took eight years and has since been duplicated all over the world with a variety of species, explained one of our guides … the genial and informative Dr. Kress himself. We stopped on a nearby island for lunch, a hike, and an information-packed talk about the area’s geology from staff member Eric Snyder.

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Review of The Bluebird Effect by Julie Zickefoose

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As a birder I like to believe that I have amassed a significant quantity of information about birds but Julie, in her labor of love as a wildlife rehabilitator, puts my puny store of bird lore in the shade. It brims with humor, with depth, with emotion, and with deeply personal stories that transcend typical nature writing.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

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The best moments are when the film simply lets the images do the work and we watch the eagles soar, hunt, and take care of their nest and their totally adorable eaglet, composer David Majzlin’s original music echoing our emotions of wonder. I think birders will enjoy it, but will be hungry, as I was, for more hard information and facts.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. By including these stories, Cocker has created a book that is very much a part of our current information age, in which democracy rules.

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