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Birds and People: A Book Review

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and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. By including these stories, Cocker has created a book that is very much a part of our current information age, in which democracy rules. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai.

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