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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up there at all–I was working on a chaotic project at work, the economy was in crisis (well, the economy is always in crisis, but this was the summer of 2011, as in Black Monday crisis), and the tour itself was not confirmed till two months before the start date.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Solid Air is divided into 12 chapters, presented as if Klem was on an auditorium podium giving a logical argument on why people need to take window strikes seriously. His seminal article, “Bird-Window Collisions,” based on dissertation research finished in 1979, was not published in a peer-reviewed journal until 1989.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’ Practically every sentence is documented with these studies.

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Mitochondrial mysteries and splitting-lumping Yellow-rumped Warblers

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The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America, present in many parts of the United States even through the winter months, when the birds feed on small fruits and other foods, including sap. 2011; Milá et al.

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Rare Birds of North America: A Book Review

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Interestingly, the authors also decided to include eleven species not yet accepted as occurring naturally by records committees, but which, they say, present interesting vagrancy questions. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices.

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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

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So, browse through the whole section of the bird family you’re researching to make sure you haven’t missed anything. (To The photographs come from 150 photographers and over 115, most appearing to be birders or researchers, are credited with donating the photos. This happens a lot in the shorebird sections.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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Most importantly, let us remember that the effects of the spill are still being felt and the BP Oil Spill timeline continues until the present and into the future. August 25, 2011 Scientists report that oil surfacing a mile from the site of the sunken rig matches that of the oil from the Deep Horizon disaster site.

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