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On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 2:59 PM lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible] < ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Thanks for starting this thread, Larry. I’ve birded Belize on several
> occasions & visited the Belize Zoo founded by Sharon Matola. Bruce Barcott
> authored a non-fiction book about Sharon’s environmental attempt to
> preserve the “Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw”, the book’s title. I won’t
> give the spoiler alert.
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> Others are more field guide oriented: my grandmother’s “Audubon Guide All
> Birds of East & Central North America” by Richard Pough 1953 ed, for
> sentimental reasons. Although, it does have interesting info on Eskimo
> Curlew, Ivory-billed WP & Kirtland’s Warbler. Also, a Christmas gift from
> my parents the yr I got my BS in Wildlife Biology: the 2 vol “The Bird Life
> of Texas” by Oberholser & illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Packed
> with great bird biology info from a time when field studies were, indeed,
> hands-on.
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> Not, a bird oriented book but I also enjoy books about the Rocky Mt
> fur-trapper era. And an Idahoan, Vardis Fisher, who wrote the popular
> “Mountain Man”, also wrote a now out-of-print book “Pemmican” about the
> Canadian Rockies fur-trapper era when North West trappers were competing
> with Hudson Bay trappers. A great read & can sometimes locate on secondary
> market.
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> Brian Carrigan
> Blackfoot
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