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Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen

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I don’t mind that they share the world with other creatures, and I have even developed an appreciation for mammals, reptiles and amphibians – but only so long as watching them doesn’t collide with my finding birds. I am a birder, and I love birds. For Europe, only very few books exist that cover the topic at all.

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New Birding For A New Year

10,000 Birds

The multitude of tools and ways you can enter/view your personal data is quite impressive, and it only continues to grow…although it might be on a subconscious level, embracing eBird more can be another kick in the butt to get out in the field. EBird makes this possible. Try eBird. Afraid of getting seasick? Don’t be!

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

10,000 Birds

She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. The tools envisaged for this are improving habitat management (including transboundary reserves), fighting the poachers and collaborating with local communities. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Birds in Brazil.

10,000 Birds

’ They are challenging to find, frustrating to photograph, and the antbird experience often includes heat and humidity, mud and bugs. It was one of those magic experiences when you are so absorbed you forget you have a camera. Favorite Mammal: Jaguar for the win! However, all is forgotten when you get a good look at them.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. 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. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Offshore Sea Life: East Coast, Birds of Pennsylvania, & Texas Birds: Three Books, Three Reviews

10,000 Birds

A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals.