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The Blood Pheasant

10,000 Birds

One paper identified the number of flocks in their research area “by tracing their tracks in the snow” Very Cowboys and Indians. So, researchers looked at the habitat use of Blood Pheasants as related to the presence of livestock. What are their criteria for selecting real estate?

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book. Greeley has a historian’s instincts, perhaps stemming from his training as an archivist (though he ended up, he says vaguely, in business and market research). But this is not a hagiography.