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Flights of Passage: a book review

10,000 Birds

There are 59 million mature Blackpolls, which sounds good until the authors note that their population declined by 92 percent between 1970 and 2014: the math alone seems unbelievable. ” In other words, wind turbines don’t harm birds just by smashing them to smithereens — they harm birds by merely existing.

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Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park

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Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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–especially when reviewing books like A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia or Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. When we come to Gentoo Penguin again in the South Georgia chapter, for example, we’re referred back to its first appearance in Antarctica, utilizing the outline numbers.).

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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The distribution maps are taken from Lynx’s HBW and Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World (2014), with updates for recent splits. 8) and seabird homes like South Georgia. I am very happy to have all this knowledge summarized and articulated and spelled out for me. CONCLUSION.

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Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide–A Review

10,000 Birds

Looking at the map for Red-headed Woodpecker, for example, you would think that the bird could be found as easily in New York as in Georgia. Firefly Books, 2014; 528 pages, 6.2 The maps are larger than those in field guides, but only give an approximation of distribution. ISBN-10: 177085309X; ISBN-13: 978-1770853096.

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

10,000 Birds

This is not your ordinary reference book, though it was cited as one of the best reference sources of 2014 by Library Journal. King Penguins heading out to feed, Macquarie Island (beginning of book). Magenellic Penguin, parent and child. (p. De Roy observed and photographed Penguin colonies for a 15-year period to create this book.

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The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition: A Review of an Iconic Guide in a New Edition

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When my friend Victoria, who lives in Georgia and who is an avid birder but who is not an avid reader of blogs and social media, asked me “Should I buy the new Sibley? Knopf, 2014. Sometimes it takes an unexpected question. Is it different from the old Sibley?” I realized that I was writing this review all wrong. inches, 624 pages.