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

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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. In six or seven months, the “best books of the year” features will come out in the important print and web publications.

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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

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Although the country is around the same size as West Virginia, 39 species of diurnal raptors are on the list. A major year bird, one of my partner’s most wanted species, I hope I can go back to that site with her and refind this hunter of oropendolas, guans, and other large birds. Image taken and provided by Greg Links.

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Why You Should See The Big Year When It Opens

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Even though we spend more money and are far more numerous than hunters this is not commonly understood. The better this film does on the first weekend is critically important to us and the birds. How will it help Birds? Go to the theaters with your binoculars show everyone We Are Birders.

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

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The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.” ” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.”

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The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

Nearly exterminated in Maine by hunters in the 1800‘s, the charismatic, orange-beaked little puffins nested only on one other state island until Dr. Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977.

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