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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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He happily commented: “I am now well ahead of Noah’s pace, while I haven’t even started my journey through Africa and, last but not least, the most bird-rich continent of all, South America. Slowly but surely, I start to realize that breaking the world record could become a reality.”

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of July 2011?

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I hate to remind you, my teaching friends, but in North America we’re as close to the beginning of a new school year as we are to the end of the last one! Summer, by which I mean practical summer as opposed to natural summer, is just about half-over.

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Shorebirding in Costa Rica

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Large groups of nighthawks have been seen flying during the day, and other birds that winter in South America are just starting to move through in huge numbers. Counts of anywhere from twenty to eighty Marbled Godwits are standard when birding Chomes or Punta Morales; two of the main shorebird hotspots in Costa Rica.

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Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

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Now, I do hope you have stayed with me to this point, because there is a moral to this story: How much do you like your ducks, grebes, sandpipers, and plovers? So, in many cases, their survival depends at least as much on the qualities of wetlands in Latin America. One of these shorebirds is not like the others!

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles. He received a B.A.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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The Index lists names, places, birds (by complete common name), and most of the book’s subjects (conservation, cruelty, extinction, morality, but ‘god’ is limited to animal gods). There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism.

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On Changes in What Americans Are Attending To

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It's even more offensive than the condescension of believers, who are praying for poor me and my pointless life sans morality. And doubly exciting to see that mainstream America is having debates on national television--on places like Larry King!--about about the eating of animals.

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