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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong

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Over and again, Kroodsma admits to things to which neither he, nor any other researchers, yet have answers – including areas where diligent amateurs can, he says, make discoveries. And that’s part of the point of the book, and its charm – how much there is still to be discovered in the realm of birdsong.

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Accessibility Matters

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A recent episode of the American Birding Podcast featured an interview with Virginia Rose (Founder and President) and Freya McGregor (Coordinator) of the non-profit Birdability. My impression is that it is a fairly safe area and families are a common sight on weekends, as are school groups. eBird checklists are here and here.).

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

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Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. This is where Boase excels. It is reproduced in “Mrs.

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Arizona in Summer: It Ain’t All Hummers

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Here are some of the best experiences of my excellent trip. I managed to get some video of this greedy thrasher before a family walked down the path, and you can view it here. My goal was Lucifer Hummingbird , but I didn’t do enough research to know that the best time to see the hummingbird is in the early evening.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations. A tradition was born.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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I strongly suspect that the rate of attrition on this Loon family is inversely proportionate to the abundance of ducklings in the bay. Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. But now there is some research on that. And, every now and then one of the Loons disappears too.

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