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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. Marybeth Lima tells her birding and personal stories in straightforward, honest language that never skimps on detail (sometimes a bit too much detail) but never overflows on emotion. Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species.

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“Earth’s Wild Music”: a book review

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She also likes to wag her finger at you – you know who I mean: you – for your complicity, as an individual and as a member of the species, in the supposed imminent destruction of the planet. Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, 2021, 249 pp., $26 Thus the book is a call to arms, and perhaps a necessary one. By Kathleen Dean Moore.

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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. Though all are well-written, there are several that standout for excellence of the writing, challenge of topic, or stylistic daring. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

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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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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. Detective Inspector Fraser Wylie of the Hertfordshire Constabulary offered a number of theories about how the stolen birds might be used—for dressmaking, costume jewelry, or fishing lures—and asked collectors to keep an eye out for these species.

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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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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). I was conversing with the birds of Guangxi through my drawings.

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