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The Extreme Raptor Weekend Round-Up

10,000 Birds

This weekend was meant to draw kids into the Hamburg, PA Cabela’s to experience birds in a up-close and personal kind of way. Adrian Binns ( Nikon Birding ProStaff and Wildside Nature Tours ) brought up two vans of children from the Philadelphia area for a chance to experience all of the activities and be filmed on camera.

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

10,000 Birds

Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. I didn’t see scapulars, auriculars, primaries, tail coverts, tarsi—none of that.