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Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an author, naturalist, and speaker based in Seattle.

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In my experience, birds are as fine and appropriate a lens through which to assimilate life as anything else.

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (2001)

Owls are not like other birds. I suppose one could say this about any avian tribe, but owls are particularly unlike, with layered dimensions of dissimilarity.

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (2001)

Cormorants are hated. In one popular anti-cormorant treatise, the bird is blamed for its very existence: “A war is being waged between the interests of sport fishermen and a predatory bird that has no local natural enemy. The bird’s sole purpose is to reproduce and eat fish.” Of course, obtaining food and reproducing are two primary goals of any species, including our own.

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (2001)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lyanda Lynn Haupt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.