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Pseudonymns for Costa Rican Birds

10,000 Birds

Here are a few of my recommendations for some such esteemed members of the Costa Rican avifauna: Forest Football Chicken or FFC (Great Tinamou) – Since tinamou sounds like the perfect representation of an oddly-shaped bird with a small head that gives beautiful tremulous vocalizations, I am sorely tempted to leave this one off the list.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

It’s a unique title; twitchers and naturalists interested in migration will find it fascinating reading and valuable for future reference. Here’s the kind of woman she is: when she got home after her first day of roller derby bootcamp, she was so sore she had to crawl up her stairs to get into a hot bath, where she cried for an hour.

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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. I will be referring to the guides by simply their state names for the rest of this review, I think that makes it easier for both writer and reader.). field guides in general.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 1

10,000 Birds

The Nonggang Babbler ‘s claim to fame is having only been discovered in 2008 (as a meaningless reference, it should be added that the first iPhone was released in 2007, one year earlier). Spot the reference? ) On the morning of day 4 at Nonggang, I had a sore throat but a covid test was negative, so birding continued …

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

If Loos thinks that animal agribusiness will win the argument on ethical grounds, he is sorely mistaken. An increasing number of industry wonks appear to have come to the realization that they can't win on moral grounds, so they are trying a new tact: doublespeak. Calling an inhumane practice "humane" does not make that practice humane.

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