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The Secrets of my Success

10,000 Birds

And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. So yes, this appears to be a breeding population.]. And since I don’t go to the lake very often in late spring, I rarely get to see these Avocets in their breeding plumage.

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I and the Bird: What is a Grebe?

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And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. And truth told, over the years they’ve been something of a square peg for ornithologists too, not fitting precisely into any of the known families of birds. I would never have believed it, but if the science says so who am I to argue otherwise?

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South Africa’s endemic birds

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Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

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Gulls of the World: A Photographic Guide: A Gull Book Review

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Gulls of the World is meant to cover more geographic area (add South America, Australia and the Arctic and any other parts of the world not covered in the first book) and less detail. Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. Browsing through this book is tough.

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