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Twitching

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For the past several years I have been taking advantage of our many National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) here in Northern California. This leads me to my third twitch for the celebrated Falcated Duck ( Anas falcata ) at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in January of 2012. This was a no-brainer. I found it within 30 minutes.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. WildGuides, Princeton University Press, summer 2016. Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland. 560pages, 6.3

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Nevertheless, it necessary to combine field experience with museum experience to create a vivid and accurate image of a species. of Texas Press in 2013 (I haven’t examined either title). Birds of Central Americ a is, of course, more current than Peterson , but both incorporate the major taxonomic splits of 2016.

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