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

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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. In Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure , Susan Fox Rogers offers a series of elegantly written essays on learning to bird. Read the book: it makes perfect sense.)

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A Change in Attitude. “I wrote Heilke in Colorado. Personal Things. “A

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds.