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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Birds of Belize by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. Howell joined the field guide roster this spring, very welcome in a year sadly sparse in new titles. Dale Dyer put in years working on his paintings for Birds of Central America , both in the field and in the museum.

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Birds of Prey of the East & Birds of Prey of the West: Review of Two Field Guides

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There are 35 raptor species that have a presence in the United States and Canada, 56 (more or less) if you count by subspecies, and they are all covered in admirable, exhausting, unbelievable detail in B irds of Prey of the East: A Field Guide and Birds of Prey of the West: A Field Guide by Brian K. Structure & Organization.

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Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America: A Book Review by a Sound Challenged Birder

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The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging. The guide covers 520 species of birds regularly found in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, including, interestingly, a number of exotic species. But, first the basics.

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Winter Finch Forecast for 2012-2013

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Both coniferous and hardwood tree seed crops are generally poor from northeastern Ontario extending eastward across Quebec to Newfoundland south through the Maritime Provinces, New York and New England States. The Ontario breeding population of this grosbeak is stable. Wandering birds may show up throughout the Northeast.

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Birder, Defined

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The book has garnered positive reviews in publications such as the New York Times , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker. Producing a dictionary, or a new edition of an existing dictionary, is a daunting task. Of course, a “person who birds” begs the question of what “ bird ,” as a verb, means.

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution – A Review by a Sometime Jersey Birder

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Jersey has always gotten a bad rap in general (the smells of the turnpike, the Jersey shore, the governor), and in the world of birding, the state often seems to be symbolized by two words: Cape May. During the past week, for example, birders have been flocking to a backyard in northwest New Jersey to see a Common Chaffinch.)

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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