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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. by Errol Fuller.

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