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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

10,000 Birds

This latest addition to the ABA State Field Guide series is sorely needed in places like Wakodahatchee. During the last visit in 2011, I was fortunate to see all three Rosy-Finch species at Red Rocks Park. So, each guide has an individual personality. Disclosure time: I bird Florida, mostly the southeast area, several times a year.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

Some of these essays have been published before, mostly in literary magazines or limited distribution publications. Press, 2011). Alison Vilag’s “Extralimital” started out as an exceptional personal blog post about spotting a Common Swift while guiding birders on St. .”

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. Thank you for your efforts.

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