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The Cry of the Curlew

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The day before I photographed Yellow 1M I’d read a fascinating article in the weekly magazine Shooting Times , written by Liam Bell, head gamekeeper on a family-owned estate in South Shropshire, not far from the Welsh border. His piece started with the bold statement “Our curlew are back.

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Nanhui, Shanghai in early spring 2020

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In a better world, I would get rich by selling this photo to the producer of Valentine`s day cards … … and this one to a pornographic magazine. There are even some warblers that look a bit less anonymous than the majority of the family. The obvious local star of the bird world is the Reed Parrotbill. Witness the.

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Birding Ruili, Yunnan

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After reading a glossy celebrity paper – maybe about an Oscar celebration – the eBird reviewer gets back to writing short descriptions of birds but still has the vocabulary of the magazine in his or her head.

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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The new hot novelist Jenny Offill was quoted in the Times magazine recently about her first book: “If someone had described this novel to me, I would never have read it.”. Things get complicated – and then, completely out of hand — when Gabe’s new inamorata is introduced to his family. Gabe agrees to come along.

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Creepers in the Forest

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As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this 25 years before I appeared in Audubon magazine myself) birds gripped my attention. Very soon, the other members of this unique family were on my radar. Getting familiar with birds is a process. Streak-headed Woodcreeper.

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Classy, Elegant Bird Art from Costa Rica

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It’s such a far cry from the way things were in pre-Internet times that those days almost seem to be located in another world, another universe where we opened the pages of a magazine and gazed in awe at images of unbelievable birds.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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