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Book Review: ‘The Unfeathered Bird’

‘The Unfeathered Bird’, Katrina van Grouw Just last week I reviewed Ceri Levy and Ralph Steadman’s ‘Extinct Boids‘, a sumptuously large book that is part-art, part-story, part-history, a riot of colour and unfettered imagination that is (in my opinion anyway) …

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Review: ‘Birds of Kuwait: a comprehensive visual guide’

Back in both January and February 2005 I was fortunate enough to be shown around the small middle-eastern state of Kuwait by George Gregory, a

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Birding Frontiers – Gull Masterclasses

I like a challenge, ergo I like gulls! However liking gulls and knowing how to identify them are two very different things. I have muddled through gull identification

A new way of reviewing a Book – via Talking Naturally AND Fatbirder?

A short while ago - but probably many posts and articles for both of us - I wrote a post in which I announced what we hoped would

Review: Pentax DCF ED 8×43 binoculars

I've written a fair old number of reviews since I started blogging back in 2004, and I fully appreciate that to be really useful to

Review: "Smithsonian Guide to the Birds of North America"

We birders are a most fortunate bunch. Not only are we spoilt for choice when it comes to high-quality optics, birding holidays to suit every budget and every

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Extremadura, EL50 Swarovisions and the birds of Day four

Okay, yes, I've done this line to death, but humour me and 'picture the scene' anyway. Twenty keen birders are standing beside a farm gate as a rose

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Extremadura and the Swarovski EL50 Swarovisions: Day three

So, yesterday (which feels like sometime last week already - we may be having fun but blooming heck we've put the hours in) we put the new EL50

Review: Facing Extinction

'Facing Extinction' is the third book on birds, extinction, and conservation I've reviewed in the last eight weeks. As the old joke about buses goes, you wait ages

Review: New Holland Concise Guides

Back in the 1970s (in the early dawn of the mass marketing of books on wildlife identification!) Hodder and Stoughton published a series of books under the title

  

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