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Accessibility Matters II:  Birdability Q&A

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Both have been featured on the ABA Podcast and Freya has written for the National Audubon Society , Birding magazine and the LA Times. Apart from helping share this much-needed information, it’s a concrete way they can help, and it can be such an amazing learning experience going through the process of a Birdability Site Review.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. In fact, early, photographic versions of several chapters appeared in Living Bird and Audubon Magazine (see the above links).

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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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It proved strong enough to take the many knocks and falls that a hard-used scope experiences during its lifetime. Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India. I got my sharpest results by never using the zoom on the camera, only on the scope.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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In “Birding in Traffic,” Jonathan Rosen, no stranger to making connections between birds and human elements as he did in “The Life of the Skies,” describes how he took the subway to Union Square Park to see a rare (for NYC) Scott’s Oriole. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course.

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Birding Without Borders: A Review

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Strycker, an Associate Editor of “ Birding ” magazine and author of a really fine 2014 book, “ The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human ,” is obviously a brilliant birder and a fine writer.

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