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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

10,000 Birds

Phoebe, Liam and I went down to work (and play) in January 2011 at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , and it was the highlight of our winter. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. If you haven’t already taken in the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , please make plans for next January.

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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 the classic field marks, size of head and shape of tail, but, we are told, never rely on just one or two features!