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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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Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. Accidentals is published by the ten-year old Torrey House Press, which has an impressive-looking roster of books, fiction and non-, about the outdoors and the American West, including The Plume Hunter, previously reviewed here.

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World Sparrow Day 2011

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Are you going to help “raise public awareness about the decline of the house sparrow and throw light on the problems faced by the species&# or are you in the camp that hates the lowly House Sparrow ? He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. The rather drab-looking female can only look colorful by grabbing some colorful insects. Accessorizing for birds. They patiently sat for my photos in order to achieve this.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. more than there really was to see!” (p. by Errol Fuller.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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Princeton University Press, September 15, 2014. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Let’s read about its life with amazement and view the future within the prism of its death. The Passenger Pigeon. by Errol Fuller. Hardcover, 9.6 inches, 184 pages, $29.95.

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