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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

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I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. Here’s a look at Sibley Birds East and Sibley Birds West (the books’ cover titles), feature by feature: Size & Cover: The new field guides are the roughly the same size as the 2003 editions, a bit higher, wider, and heavier.

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Forgotten Prairies

10,000 Birds

Whether I am speaking about Henslow’s Sparrows and Upland Sandpipers of the east and Midwest that occupy tall-grass prairies or birds like Ferruginous Hawks and Mountain Plovers of the western short-grass prairies; all deserve our attention. This was back in 2003 so it is hard to say where those numbers fall now.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps. Marathon Prairie Dog Town. Rufous-winged Sparrow – Peucaea carpalis. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Cassin’s Sparrow – Peucaea cassinii. Grasshopper Sparrow – Ammodramus savannarum. Labudovo Okno NR–Kli?evac,

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