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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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Each chapter of The Jewel Hunter reads like a mini-travel novel. If you want to travel the world birding and drinking beer, The Jewel Hunter is a must-buy. The Jewel Hunter belongs to a singular niche, the Big Year/Big Lifelist book. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect. And sun bears. And leeches.

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No Surprise, Except Hunters Will Still Use Lead

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Two new studies “add scientific evidence that hunters’ lead ammunition often finds its way into carrion-eating birds, such as eagles and turkey vultures.&# So when will conservation-minded hunters stop using lead ammunition? One might think that hunters only act as conservationists when they are forced to by law.

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Conservationist Hunters Should Find a New Party

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Though I will always question to some degree the motivation behind hunters’ conservation initiatives I find it fascinating that the current Republican Party, completely in thrall to the Tea Party budget hackers, is seriously angering one of their traditional constituencies. Let’s get some more emphasis on the conservation side.

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Where the People Are

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As you flip through the pages, you encounter names that every reader of this blog is likely to know, at least in passing: Julie Zickefoose and Bill Thompson III, Charley Harper, Kenn Kaufman. The Birding Life is another coffee-table-worthy affair, rich with color photographs and brief vignettes that encourage browsing.

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Why You Should See The Big Year When It Opens

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When Corey wrote his ideas about spending money on blogs and birders , I felt a very familiar feeling that I have felt for many years: Why are there not 20 birding shows and a Television BIRD NETWORK? Even though we spend more money and are far more numerous than hunters this is not commonly understood. How will it help Birds?

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets. They are called Antlions due to ants being one of their main prey items and “lion” referring to hunter or destroyer.

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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The trip was far too amazing to encapsulate in one mere blog post, so prepare to be enthralled over the course of several weeks (especially once I find the USB cord for my camera and download my photos.) But to get started, let me try to do in words what Charles M. The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away.

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