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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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He has consulted unpublished interviews and diaries, government documents, local newspapers, archival collections, and hundreds of books and magazines, mostly on history politics but also on other areas that impacted McLean’s life, like livestock farming. Is that possible anymore? It’s good to have stories that inspire.

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Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

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Listed as a Species of Special Concern in New York and as threatened or endangered in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, Poocetes gramineus is in trouble in the northeastern United States and, considering the decline shown in Ontario’s second breeding bird atlas, in eastern Canada as well.*

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career.