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Rachel Carson: Secret Birder

10,000 Birds

After experiencing the Rachel Carson Commemorative in Duxbury, MA, she was moved to share some little-known facts about this tremendously influential nature writer’s interest in birds… I was thirteen when my mother and I took turns reading aloud the new bestseller, Silent Spring , on family vacation the summer of 1963.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

10,000 Birds

If you are hosting an unusual hummingbird in eastern Pennsylvania, this is they guy who is likely to come to your home and band it. We don’t simply learn that Great Horned Owls sometimes eat fish, we learn that in northeastern California, they eat Tui chub and in Pennsylvania they eat brown bullhead catfish.

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A Problem with Gulls

10,000 Birds

About the Author Dan Dan is an eastern Pennsylvania native who grew up surrounded by birdwatching and nature documentaries. Dan is an active member of BirdLife Cyprus and goes birding whenever his career and family allow. at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or

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Review of Your Backyard

10,000 Birds

Nonetheless, I thought it might be interesting and informative to review a DVD put out by Crowe’s Nest Media , a family owned and operated company, which is how I found a copy of Your Backyard: A young beginner’s guide to identifying 18 common feeder birds by sight & sound in my mailbox earlier this week.

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