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

10,000 Birds

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. © 2023 by Steve N.

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Hard for Russian Veterinarians to Use Anesthesia Due to Russian Drug Laws

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Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. It was technically legalized but in reality rejected. To work without anesthesia is to cut animals when they are conscious."

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

Wicked, right? Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Review Classic: The Warbler Guide

10,000 Birds

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. I think the Stokes Field Guide to Warblers (2004) and Chris G. Earley’s Warblers of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America (2003) may be far less intimidating choices.

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The Warbler Guide: A Book Review by a Warbler-challenged Birder

10,000 Birds

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. I think the Stokes Field Guide to Warblers (2004) and Chris G. Earley’s Warblers of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America (2003) may be far less intimidating choices.

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Do Birds Feel Love?

10,000 Birds

She’d then climb down my leg, waddle across the room, climb up Bill’s jeans, and bite him, once right in the middle of his back. In 2003, I raised three orphaned ruby-throats from the early pinfeather stage to release at around 30 days of age. The real test of hummingbird bonds came in 2004. I know one thing. Would they return?

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

10,000 Birds

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). The pages are labeled on the left with the genus name (for example, Larus) and on the right with the brief title: Gulls.

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