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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California.

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

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And, because his name was so firmly a part of birding culture, I also didn’t realize how recently he had lived and birded the United States, nor how relatively new was the concept of a field guide. What Is In This Field Guide? ” This is fascinating stuff if you collect books.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. The second edition, with the slightly different title Birds of Trinidad & Tobago , was published in London in 2011. Restall, Floyd Hayes.

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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It covers 63 odonate species: 44 breeding species (19 damselfly, 25 dragonfly), and, in a second part of the Species Accounts, 19 vagrant, potential vagrant and former breeding species (5 damselfly, 14 dragonfly). Sections on Behaviour, Breeding Habitat, and Population and Conservation offer brief but specific information.

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A great week for Wood-Warblers

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Our first shopping trip when we arrived in Florida was to buy a field guide and that afternoon we thought we had a soft drink can sitting on a fence-you know the brand-no, it’s not that…it’s a cardinal! I did not get to appreciate all that America had to offer for the birder until I returned with my husband, Grant, in 1989.