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Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide

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It has also been published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing under the title Wildfowl of Europe, Asian, and North America , which explains why the English translation has British spelling conventions. Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide is a serious book for serious birders.

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Rare Birds of North America: A Book Review

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Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N. I had just started reading it, but I knew that this was the book my birding friends, in fact all North American birders who are fascinated by vagrants, have been waiting for.

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The mousebird mystery

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They were once a widespread and diverse group, however, with many fossils known from what are now North America and Europe. 2012 ) and that their systematic position is “highly unstable” ( Wang et al. The six living species are all found in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2011 ) across different types of analyses.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012). Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. This is where they got their name. 78(1):61–78.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. I also appreciated the occasional photo of a birder (or birders or photographers) photographing vagrants, including the well-circulated one of hundreds of photographers in Beijing gathering in a semi-circle to photograph a Japanese Robin in November 2012.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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You may know (although probably not since you’ll likely reside in North America) that a Siberian Rubythroat showed up over the winter 2015/16 in a small village in the Netherlands, an extremely rare and highly sought-after vagrant from Siberia (duh!). That’s not bad. Shore Lark , Sylt, Germany.

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