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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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These two Hadada Ibis are reenacting the mirror scene from “Duck soup” (sort of). While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. In 1964, two researchers described a new species, the White-chested Tinkerbird, and brought a specimen back to the UK.

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

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In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). They are by Karlson, from his years as a research biologist in Alaska, and Ted Swem, a U.S.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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I write ‘focus-on-the-birds’ because it is highly probable that Harper had drawn birds before, but not in a highly focused manner that involved research, which he engaged in very seriously, and observation of bird behavior. A tradition was born.