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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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The book was originally published in 2006 as Galápagos: A Natural History with John Kricher as the sole author. I don’t have a copy of the 2006 edition, but I was able to read selected pages via Google Books. copyright © 2022 by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin; copyright © 2006 by Princeton University Press.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. The photographs, many by the author, are credited at the end of the book.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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As in the ornithological world, there has been a major shift in groupings and scientific names of mushrooms. Like Boletes, they have tubes, but they are separate groups according to my reading.). These are much simpler, depending on the features on the specific group. The updated nomenclature is a very important feature.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. If the accipiter swivels its head to look at a group of hawk watchers without moving its body, it’s a Cooper’s.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

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I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. A second flock is released into the wild in 2006. It really isn’t. The birds thrive. This series by Carol L.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Over a dozen distinctive ethnic groups exist here, many of whom live lives little touched by the modern world. It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. In 2006 the Ethiopian government started building the giant Gibe III Dam further up the Omo River.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Basis of this collection are the interdisciplinary lectures on Animal Rights which took place from April to October 2006 at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (Germany).

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