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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

10,000 Birds

They will list ten or twenty or fifty titles, and will include, inevitably, Hunter Biden’s autobiography, and Volume 12 of Barack Obama’s, and other such works. candidates and other seabird field researchers; and crusty boatsmen, some clued-in and some clueless, who guide him in various latitudes.

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Why You Should See The Big Year When It Opens

10,000 Birds

Money will spill over to sponsor research projects, money to support nature centers, money to fund education. Even though we spend more money and are far more numerous than hunters this is not commonly understood. The revenues for every aspect of our lives will increase. How will it help Birds?

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

10,000 Birds

I write ‘focus-on-the-birds’ because it is highly probable that Harper had drawn birds before, but not in a highly focused manner that involved research, which he engaged in very seriously, and observation of bird behavior. A tradition was born.