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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. This isn’t a rhetorical question, think about it. I don’t think so.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

10,000 Birds

During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. My reasons for this are as follows: 1.

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Close Encounters

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It watched me, calmly, until I sat down about 7 feet away (almost at minimum focusing distance) and we both regarded each other, and I occasionally raised the camera and snapped off another frame. I knew that it was a behaviour that was common in owls but I had never even heard of it with hawks before. Surprise is a good thing.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp. Their photos are the only known ones taken of the owl in the wild.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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Sister to this group is the Strisores : the “night birds” (excluding owls), swifts, and hummingbirds. The deepest branches after Accipitriformes and owl among the Afroaves, the mousebirds and cuckoo-roller, have Eocene relatives with raptor-like feet, and the cuckoo-roller specializes on chameleon prey. Jarvis et al.

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