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

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles. ’ Ted Floyd is probably best known as the editor of Birding magazine, the informative, handsome periodical of the American Birding Association, and as the author of many ABA Blog posts. (In He received a B.A.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

10,000 Birds

I first became familiar with the photographs and photo essays of Marie Read through their publication in Living Bird , the Cornell Lab of Ornithology magazine (British-born, Marie lives in the Finger Lakes area). Her photos have appeared in numerous magazines, educational exhibits, calendars, and she has won prestigious photography awards.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. There is no end-of-book list of resources, which reflects, I think, an assumption that the birder using this book is already familiar with the more general birding books and magazines. Armistead and Brian L. Authors George L.

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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

10,000 Birds

A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift. Iconic and amazing Galápagos finches, some of which even learned how to use tools.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

10,000 Birds

The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. There are other resources that do this better, he says, and, in fact, spends 10 pages recommending field and advanced bird guides, web sites, magazines, and listservs. And one of those tools is Geography.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Crows from the remote Pacific island of New Caledonia show incredibly high-level skills when they make and use tools. They can add features to improve a tool, a skill supposedly unique to humans.

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