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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

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Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. Kooyman (co-author with Jim Mastro) spent decades studying Emperor Penguins and can be considered the world’s foremost expert on the species. Author Gerald L.

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Birding the “Utterly Peaceful Moorland” – Sumapaz NP Colombia

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Aleksandar started birdwatching when he was 10, after a face-to-face encounter with an Erect-crested penguin. I caught traveler’s diarrhea four days ago in the jungle (Imodium to the rescue, but just barely). Since then he has traveled the globe, his passion for birds growing with each new encounter. Oh yeah, I almost forgot.

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Bird Songs (but maybe not the kind you’re thinking): A review of “There Are Birds,” a music album, and an interview with songstress Stephanie Seymour

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A descendant of those little brown blobs–or, at least, a relative—was Emily, rescued by Seymour and her husband Bob, and made the subject of one of the tracks on her terrific new pop-rock music album, There Are Birds. Yellow-headed Blackbird, you’re an easy bird to miss. And you were my nemesis. But now you’re mine. (It