On the last day on Kazakhstan as we drove from oasis to oasis, birding spot to birding spot, I was amazed at how variable...
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Blackbird singing in the dead of night, Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this...
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John Clare (1793 – 1864) of England was known in his day as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, both for his provincial turns of phrase...
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On the second day of the Mesoamerican Bird Festival we had a treat in the evening, an exhibition of hummingbird art by Honduran artist...
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I recently discovered the work of Deborah Goodman, a talented nature artist out of Utah. The images of images of birds and other wildlife...
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Some months ago we here at 10,000 Birds learnt about Charleen Turner, and her amazingly patient (and loving) documentation of a pair of Mute...
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Do you feel it in the air? The last whispers of summer are slipping away. Many of us grow wistful this time of year,...
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Chapter 1 of Birdtopia can be found here, in which the narrator, George, finds and identifies a dead chickadee, reveals his crush on Lisa,...
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