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Guide to the Birds of Honduras Translation Project

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On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012). How can the people of a country take an earnest appreciation and any magnitude of assimilating any kind of conservation ethic if they don’t even have access to literature pertaining to their own country?

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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. 2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. I have all four of his field guides on my bookshelf; I enjoy their friendly, informative approach and identification aids (cheat sheets!

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing. The Resources lists are recommendations on where to find most of the materials discussed in the text, which I appreciate. They are good basic lists, though I think selected web sites could also have been included.

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

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Queens birders will get a kick out of William Kornblum’s “A Land Ethic for the City”, in which he takes his Queens College students on a geological tour of Kissena Park, describing it, as well as Alley Pond Park and Jamaica Bay, as cogs in the city’s network of waterways. Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2012.

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Unless we start taking wildlife crime seriously and allocate the resources necessary to tackle a sophisticated and well-financed global criminal network, elephants and other charismatic species will continue their tragic slide into oblivion. 4, 2012 The writer is vice president for species conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society.