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The Gull Next Door

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When I was growing up in a fishing town on the Oregon coast, gulls were seemingly everywhere at all times. From the waterfront to the rooftops of buildings throughout the town to the car park of the nearby national park, examples of a range sizes, shapes, and seemingly inexplicable white, grey, and brown color patterns could be seen at different times throughout the year. Quarrelsome, sometimes confrontational, and nearly always raucus, I – and most everyone I knew – at best ignored them whenever we could and insulted them when we couldn’t.

Faster than a Reading Mark Avery

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I’m not certain as to his respective land speed, physical strength, or vertical leaping capabilities, but when it comes to Mark Avery’s speed at reading books, he’s definitely super. I turn my back for a fortnight and he’s got four new book reviews posted to his blog.

When God Was a Bird

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Published in 2019 by Fordham University Press, this book caught my attention for it’s remarkably daring central proposition, that “[r]eligion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a disproportionate burden for creating humankind’s exploitative attitudes toward nature through unearthly theologies that divorce human beings and their spiritual yearnings from their natural origins. […] And yet, buried deep within the Christian tradition are startling portrayals of God as the beaked and feathered Holy Spirit – the ‘animal God,’ as it were, of historic Christian witness.”

Bird Love

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Birds do it.

But if you’ve taken a basic biology course, you likely already knew that.

Dr. Wenfei Tong, however, knows much more about how they do it than just the basics, and in her new book “Bird Love;  the Family Life of Birds,” she explores and explains the extraordinary range of courtship, mating, and brood rearing practices found among the planet’s diverse birdlife.

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