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A great week for Wood-Warblers

10,000 Birds

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.

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Don’t Mess with the Great Texas Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

Imagine then, if you dare, a series of Big Sits, Big Days, and Big Weeks set in some of the most specialized and biodiverse ecosystems in the birdiest of all the United States. What separates the GTBC from other events, apart from a suite of special birds found nowhere else in the United States, is how funds are acquired and disbursed.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

in 2011*) came about. Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.

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

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

When I first looked through this book, I thought it was déjà vu and that I was looking at many of the same species we have here in the northeast United States. It is Herperia comma, the skipper we call Common Branded Skipper, a smaller orange-brownish skipper with several white spots on its hindwings.

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