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Essentials For Packing When Birding Anywhere In The World

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You can stuff them in shoes, wedge them in gloves and even if it’s too warm, you can use them to apply heat to sore muscles. Hunting sections will always have gloves, wool socks, bug spray–all sorts of handy tools. Hand Warmers are the best thing to happen to outdoor comfort.

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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

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Instant/easy review of digital photos can greatly speed up the process of difficult identifications…many birders now find a camera to be an indispensable tool. Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough. 6) Taxonomy.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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Paul Island, Alaska and has been reworked into an even more exceptional essay about guiding work on the island, where the unusual is the norm and bird guides use a tool kit of time and space. Donald Kroodsa’s “The Hour (or Two) Before the Dawn” is an adapted chapter from his book Listening to a Continent Sing (PUP, 2016).