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

10,000 Birds

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.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so. Ebola, a disease ravaging the other side of the continent.

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Marabou Storks

10,000 Birds

Add that sense of impending doom to an atypical appearance and you get a bird that stirs strong emotions in people. .” They stroll around in their dark cloaks and come to collect the dead. I happen to love them. Just look at that green blooming underneath the black feathers. They also frequent some beautiful places.

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