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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

There are several species, such as California Condor, for which new material had to be written (California Condor is called “nearly extinct” in the older title and not included). Press, 2011, cited as “RTP to Paul Brooks, March 6, 1945, Peterson Institute.” There is nothing wrong with this.

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

10,000 Birds

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

Press, 2011). Her editorship list includes Antarctica: Life on the Ice ( Travelers’ Tales, 2007 ), Solo: On her Own Adventure (Seal Press, 1996/revised 2005), and Two in the Wild (Vintage, 1999); she’s also written a memoir about her own kayak adventures, My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir (Cornell Univ.