This week brings the quandary of whether suspect provenance should disqualify a bird from my life-list. The bird in question is possibly the best...
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Richard Koeppel, holder of one of the world’s most extensive life lists and protagonist of To See Every Bird on Earth (my review here),...
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There are few more vexing questions in birding than the question of whether or not a bird counts. Counts for what, exactly? That’s a...
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I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. For a long...
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I have long wanted to see a Burrowing Owl. They are owls, which automatically gives them a certain cachet, and they are little, which...
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Bohemian Waxwing. Just the name makes me feel all… Jack Kerouacky. It’s a life bird that would make me get “On the Road.” Bohemian...
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Summer really is quiet. I loved Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, the biography of Phoebe Snetsinger written by...
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While we love blathering on about life list around here, one that I wrote about last week was all about someone else’s life birds...
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