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

10,000 Birds

The theme of the frailty of life and the importance of placing people before birding had been foreshadowed in an earlier chapter when Marybeth and Lynn stop birding to help rescue a man being pulled out to sea at Grande Isle (their binoculars enable rescuers to locate the man). by Marybeth Lima. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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In Defense of Wildlife Rehabilitation

10,000 Birds

All rehabbers have a rescue jones, but everyone has their own reasons for spending ungodly amounts of time, effort, money, and emotion on an endeavor which, to an outsider, may look insane. Sometimes it is a member of an endangered or threatened species. Nestling bluebirds have to be fed every 20 minutes from sunup to sundown.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. It is a deep intellectual and artistic exercise, which authentically captures my passion and emotion while watching birds. On February 3, our plane landed in Nanning.

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