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People of a Feather

10,000 Birds

Sure enough, I looked up to see a pair of yellow-bellied marmots, big woodchuck-esque creatures with adorable nose patches, come bounding and sliding down the steep, sparsely-tree range above the trail. They were wearing surprisingly fierce expressions, but hey, I’m cranky when I first wake up too.

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Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, by Christie Palmer Lowrance

10,000 Birds

” I never did read about them, and eventually the memory of Sammy Blue Jay, Polly Woodchuck, Reddy Fox, and the rest faded to the back of my mind along with the details of Struggle Beneath the Sea and Sharon, Lois, and Bram. So it is pleasing to report that a new biography, Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W.