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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.

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Happy Global Big Day from Costa Rica!

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Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ? No, everyone should be out birding.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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This allowed for my first very nice views at this species since the year 2001, which made me very happy. Lesser Spotted Eagles breed regularly with around 100 pairs in Germany, but unless you know where the territories are you are unlikely to see them. Lesser Spotted Eagle , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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