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Wing Men.(three books)(Book Currents)(Brief Article)
Twitchers, dudes, stringers, and robin strokers -- are your ears burning? The English writer and environmentalist Mark Cocker has been watching you through his binoculars and has documented your idiosyncrasies in BIRDERS: TALES OF A TRIBE (forthcoming from Atlantic Monthly). He also knows almost everything there is to know about Britain's hundreds of species of birds, which evoke a complex range of emotions, from the near-erotic, mystical experience of a first sighting to the dysphoric "dip" of a birdless outing. Since his seventies boyhood on the Derbyshire moors, Cocker has hitchhiked to see a rare migrant, gotten on the Birdline (a phone service for bird information), and tuned in to a "naff" television show called "Watching."
Migratory restlessness caused twenty-six-year-old William Fiennes, convalescing at his parents' house in the English countryside, to fly to Texas. From there he ...
- Snow geese. (Know Your Game Series).
- Magazine article from: Sports Afield March 1, 2002 700+ words
Natural History of Snow Geese There are actually three species of geese that are commonly referred to as snow geese": the Ross goose, the lesser snow...wing tips like the greater and lesser snow geese but has a slightly different bill...
- SNOW GEESE ARE GRACING US WITH THEIR ANNUAL VISIT.(DAILY BREAK)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot November 27, 1996 700+ words
...Larry Maddry HRRAANK! Hrrraank! The snow geese, our feathered friends from the far...shaped formation. Actually, a flock of snow geese in flight most resembles the shape of...Thanksgiving. There are about 25,000 snow geese in and around Chincoteague National Wildlife...
- Spring Approaches and Snow Geese Are, Too.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 6, 2006 700+ words
...accompanies most weekly weather forecasts, snow geese by the tens of thousands have been converging...are true signs of spring. Now, the snow geese are coming. Surely, the birds cannot...they sometimes head north prematurely, snow geese usually have their migration timing down...
- Snow geese population reaches new highs.(Originated from Knight-Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Montaigne, Fen November 22, 1995 700+ words
...N.J. _ Watching a flock of 100 snow geese fly across a marsh, set their wings...watched with amazement as a flight of snow geese rose from the water a mile ahead and...barking and honking of about 12,000 snow geese that were taking a break near Atlantic...
- SNOW GEESE MIGRATION; SOUTH DAKOTA; SNOW STORM; Snow geese are plentiful but...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Smith, Doug March 22, 2006 700+ words
...goose hunter. He's seen flocks of snow geese so dense and numerous they look like...fellow hunters. Undulating skeins of snow geese - in flocks ranging from several dozen...Coplan, of Brookings, S.D. But seeing snow geese and shooting snow geese are two very...
- Snow storm; Clouds of squawking snow geese fill the skies in the Dakotas these...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Smith, Doug March 28, 1999 700+ words
...horizon. Above us, wave after wave of snow geese, pintails, redheads, wigeons, mallards...course, by the population explosion of snow geese, which has jumped from fewer than 1...is a difficult bird to hunt. As the snow geese returned to the Dakotas on their long...
- IN COLORADO: SNOW GEESE OFFER EXTENDED HUNTING.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Field & Stream (West ed.) SAILE, BOB January 1, 2000 700+ words
...southeastern Colorado hunters now target snow geese. At least 30,000 snows--once a...dangerously high continental population of snow geese), the number of snows doubled to 60...limits and no license requirement. But snow geese are still eating themselves out of their...
- A flock of trouble; Snow geese have become so numerous that they now are on the...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Smith, Doug October 22, 1997 700+ words
...followed as thousands upon thousands of snow geese lifted off the water in unison. The...doesn't. Instead, the vast flocks of snow geese, which already are migrating through...to 6 million. The swelling numbers of snow geese already have destroyed one-third of...