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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

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Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. Significantly, The Eagle Huntress begins with an older eagle hunter releasing his Golden Eagle. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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Dorian Anderson finds a moment of connection with a duck hunter during his bicycle big year, and, despite his distaste for the sport, realizes that in hunters we have allies for conservation. Braunfield. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. In the next essay, J.

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Duck Migration

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It is my belief that the birds were migrating, though one New York birder suggested that they might have been flying out for some crepuscular feeding. Either way, it was a heck of a sight and another example of why Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is the best place in New York City to see amazing wildlife spectacles.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. This is good stuff.

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. 7 Responses to “Lewis’s Woodpecker in New York State&# Jochen Mar 22nd, 2011 at 4:18 am This bird is too good even by your standards. I disapprove. Corey Mar 22nd, 2011 at 5:38 am I agree. Mwahahahahaaaaar!

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