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

10,000 Birds

I’m familiar with the slaughter of herons, egrets, and other pretty birds for their feathers, but I didn’t know that shorebirds were also targets and that the gunning trade greatly contributed to the demise of the Eskimo Curlew. Kevin Karlson is a noted nature photographer, writer, tour leader, speaker, and workshop educator.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S.

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