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The Birds That Audubon Missed: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s also about personal journeys, where knowledge comes from and how it is shared, investigating the past through the lens of history and the lens of informed imagination, learning how to negotiate the grays of our ornithological heritage, and the magic of discovery. The mind reels.

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The Uncommon Demise of a Wood Thrush in Costa Rica

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Along with two clients, while calmly enjoying a fantastic natural show of two oropendola species, wood-rails, other birds, and the miniature antics of an A merican Pygmy-Kingfisher , the general calm was disrupted by the distinct screeches and alarm calls of small birds. The rails did indeed come to investigate but came up empty-beaked.

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Canadian Sentenced for Ivory Smuggling

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The sentence follows a long running international investigation by special agents of the U.S, Attorney's Office in Cleveland, Ohio. Tania Julie Siyam, a 32-year-old Canadian art dealer, has been sentenced to serve 60 months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for illegally smuggling ivory from Cameroon to the United States.

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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

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My birder’s brain struggled mightily to reconcile the odd shapes in the sky with any known species, but their call brought it all back. And what a phenomenon, to have this tropical duck in such numbers, a few hours’ flight from our home in Ohio. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. What a sight. Now that’s a jutting jaw.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The warbler is on the road to being delisted from the Endangered Species List.

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