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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America and of Northeastern North America: A Review of Two Field Guides

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You can blame the nice people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who took it upon themselves to send me a review copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America. Moths are more than bird food.

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Untamed Americas

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Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. The first of the series premiers June 10th, 2012. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains.

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This is my dream – this is my nightmare

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First, rangers would show some animal dung and teach their guests how to identify it (big deal – it is going nowhere, nor hiding away) and then show, let’s say, a herd of antelopes to their left – only to use the time when no one is watching to print some lion spurs in the dust on the right hand side, so they would be nicely fresh for photographing.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. “Nothing is more humbling,” he sighs, “than spending a few hours in a boat or on a riverbank, unsuccessfully trying to catch a fish, and then seeing an Osprey dive and catch one right in front of you” (p. Photographs, most by co-author Brian E.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. Dale Dyer put in years working on his paintings for Birds of Central America , both in the field and in the museum. Two issues came to mind immediately when I examined my reviewer copies.

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What’s up with the Hook-billed Kites?

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Both my Howell’s A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America, published in 1995 and printed in 2012, and my constantly-updated Merlin App, show maps which suggest that I should not see this beautiful Hawk in my region. And, gee, I do hope I am right. So once again, my money is on a range extension.

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Counting Feral Muscovy Ducks in Florida

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You see, Muscovy Ducks are countable in the American Birding Association area due to wild birds from Central America making their way up into Texas. And there it sat until 2012 when the Florida Ornithological Society’s Records Committee reviewed the status of several introduced species in 2012.** And, sure enough, he did.

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