Waterbirds: A slideshow

Publisher, author, photographer, and civil rights advocate linkurl:Theodore Cross;http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?id=12249 spent a decade traversing the globe, from the waterways of the Arctic Circle to sun-drenched South Pacific islands, to compile the brilliant photographs that grace the pages of his latest tome, linkurl:__Waterbirds__,;http://www.amazon.com/Waterbirds-Theodore-Cross/dp/0393072266 due to hit bookshelves on October 26th.The 85-year-old birder chatted with __The

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Publisher, author, photographer, and civil rights advocate linkurl:Theodore Cross;http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?id=12249 spent a decade traversing the globe, from the waterways of the Arctic Circle to sun-drenched South Pacific islands, to compile the brilliant photographs that grace the pages of his latest tome, linkurl:__Waterbirds__,;http://www.amazon.com/Waterbirds-Theodore-Cross/dp/0393072266 due to hit bookshelves on October 26th. The 85-year-old birder chatted with __The Scientist__, sharing his thoughts and recollections on just a few of the dozens of water-loving bird species that appear in __Waterbirds__ -- "the book that John James Audubon would have made if he had used a camera," as the front jacket proclaims. linkurl:__Waterbirds__,;http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=12248 by Theodore Cross, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, October 2009. 344 pp. ISBN: 978-0-393-07226-6. $100 US.
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[19th September 2008]*linkurl:Birds of a feather;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54775/
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  • From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.

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