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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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in 2011*) came about. I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 Margaret A.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. Dunlap, Oxford Univ.

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

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There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) The second edition, with the slightly different title Birds of Trinidad & Tobago , was published in London in 2011.

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

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The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

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