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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Endangered. Extinction.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. There is no end-of-book list of resources, which reflects, I think, an assumption that the birder using this book is already familiar with the more general birding books and magazines. Armistead and Brian L. Authors George L.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

10,000 Birds

The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. There are other resources that do this better, he says, and, in fact, spends 10 pages recommending field and advanced bird guides, web sites, magazines, and listservs. And one of those tools is Geography.

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Peterson Guide to Bird Identification—In 12 Steps: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He has also educated, criticized, and prodded the birding community in articles, print and online, and letters mostly published in the American Birding Association’s Birding magazine. Chiefly, these articles address issues of taxonomy, listing, and field guides. 16, below).”

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. More research is needed, but initial studies by the Pine Street Foundation and others on using dogs for diagnosis are promising. They get much of their food using tools, and they do this better than chimpanzees.

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

There are page references to and from the Species Accounts maps, which makes research transparently easy. A second quick finding tool is the Visual Index of Bird Families on the inside front and back covers, presenting the 86 chapters in order with bird images, text, and page numbers.

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

10,000 Birds

conservation legislation and regulation, a tool used to protect birds from irresponsible hunting, industrial intrusion and incidental take, habitat loss and pollution, and to encourage best practices by everyone, from birders to corporations. .” It has become the cornerstone of U.S. Chapter 8 is worth the read.