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The Plume Hunter

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I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. In this captivating book, Thompson explores the motivation behind hunters who shot birds to sell feathers for women’s hats at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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

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This is the birding adventure book supreme. Gooddie gets the book off to a quick start by describing his love affair with pittas (“the ultimate forest prize”), and detailing his decision to give up a good career as sales director of an audio manufacturing company (“my life was out of whack”). (He And pit vipers. And sun bears.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. I understand why Fuller created this book.

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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

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In six or seven months, the “best books of the year” features will come out in the important print and web publications. They will list ten or twenty or fifty titles, and will include, inevitably, Hunter Biden’s autobiography, and Volume 12 of Barack Obama’s, and other such works. Odd and irrelevant but curious factoid no. Stay tuned.]

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book! In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. .*

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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2) This is a NEW book edited by Lisa A. 4) It is a delightful, engaging book. It is a fact that the book fulfills the promise of its subtitle. This story of avian hatred may be the most revolutionary essay in a book full of paeans to birds and birding.). White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. A lot of this material is in her earlier book, Condors in Canyon Country, published by the Grand Canyon Association in 2007, now out-of-print (though available used).