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Flights of Passage: a book review

10,000 Birds

Yale University Press, New Haven and London, May 19, 2020. A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Photos in the body of the review, above, by David Tipling.] By Mike Unwin and David Tipling. 9 ΒΌ x 11 3/8, $40.

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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.

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Housecat Housecall

4 The Love Of Animals

Katrina Warren, BVSc, and her expert team, which includes Purina Cat Chow Mentor and Board Certified Veterinary Behaviorist Dr. Karen Sueda, DVM , and Dr. Rich Goldstein, DVM, to resolve their most pressing feline matters.

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

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First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a β€œlifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company.

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Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen

10,000 Birds

This is very bad news for a group that is largely nocturnal and has adapted to a secretive lifestyle, and is thus best detected by its tracks and signs. Track of mammals are usually only used to decorate the otherwise blank insides of a field guide’s covers, and other signs are often not mentioned at all.

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A long way from nowhere

10,000 Birds

We are remote but what a great lifestyle! Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! We can see forever-well, till the curve of the earth anyway!

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