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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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Some of these essays have been published before, mostly in literary magazines or limited distribution publications. Alison Vilag’s “Extralimital” started out as an exceptional personal blog post about spotting a Common Swift while guiding birders on St. .”

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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

10,000 Birds

This latest addition to the ABA State Field Guide series is sorely needed in places like Wakodahatchee. .” But, I was wishing that I could also hand over to each curious person a copy of the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Florida by Bill Pranty. So, each guide has an individual personality.

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Animal Ethics

5, 2009 The writer worked from 1978 to 1990 at Consumers Union as a health and science writer for Consumer Reports Magazine. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., To the Editor: As someone who has followed this issue for years, I would no sooner eat burger meat from an industrial processor than I would send a 4-year-old across Broadway alone.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader.

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