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

10,000 Birds

There was no overriding subject trend, as we’ve seen in recent years, rather a diversity of topics and approaches. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof’s column broke my heart.