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

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Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1

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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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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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A map of Ontario is reproduced on the inside front covers and the Quick Index, a one-page listing of bird families, is on the back inside cover. 2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. 2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. by 1 by 7.5

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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

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Writing in the Journal of Avian Biology in 2003, Van Remsen theorized: [T]he bill may exert more influence on our cognitive perception because of its proximity to the bird’s face. He goes on to describe how early classifications of the nine-primaried oscines relied on bill shape to determine family boundaries.

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The return of the Long-tailed Finch

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In 2003 we rarely saw Long-tailed Finches at all in our garden and in 2004 we only saw them once in October. The Double-barred Finches continued to visit and they still do in family groups daily. By 2002 we were seeing them a lot less regularly and the Double-barred Finch was the daily visitor to our garden instead.

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Flock to Marion

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A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

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