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National Geographic Birding Basics: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Great Bird-watching

11/15/2022

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National Geographic Birding Basics offers an inclusive primer for any budding bird enthusiast or anyone looking to improve their birding knowledge and practice. Birding Basics strives to give you the toolkit needed to get out and appreciate the birds that surround you everyday. This book is a series of easy to read, one-page descriptions beginning at what a birder is and why you should bird, moving to choosing equipment, bird basics, recording your observations, apps to use and birding hotspots. Some sections that I felt were particularly helpful were how to use field guides, popular apps, birding ethics and observation techniques. With a focus of accessibility, fun and finding wonder where we are, Birding Basics welcomes everyone to participate in birding.

This book was received for free in return for an honest review.

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Return to Warden's Grove

11/14/2022

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Dr. Christopher Normet reflects on three seasons of field work in the secluded area of Warden’s Grove in the Canadian Arctic region.  Here, he studied the breeding of Harris’s sparrows; one of the many small brown birds that often go unnoticed. While he describes his base camp and accomplishes his work of studying this little brown bird, Norment also tries to answer the question of what good is his science and attempts to connect science to humanity as he leaves his family behind, descends into solitude, finds home and knowledge in a desolate landscape and becomes intimate with life and death in Warden’s Grove. 
I was lucky enough to have Dr. Norment as my college advisor and professor for many of my classes.  This book wasn’t published until after I graduated, but I am glad I found it.  I was reminded of the holistic way of looking at nature and science that he often taught.  Return to Warden’s Grove is not only an intimate look into the biology of the Harris’s Sparrow, but also about how human’s connect to nature and the importance of this process.  Written non-linearly over three seasons of research, Dr. Norment makes connections in natural ways and is able to tell a story that is more than facts collected from research.    

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