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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. The window silhouettes were gone.

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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

10,000 Birds

We stop again and search the leaves: Rufous Treepie (a rather handsome forest crow), Greater Racket-tailed Drongo with its long streamers, Lesser Goldenback woodpecker… We’re winding through the forest. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. An individual was located in Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary in the Thane district in 2014.”

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Birding Cuba, or Observación de aves en Cuba

10,000 Birds

This large woodpecker is one of Cuba’s rarest birds, with a small population of 600-800 individuals, who are mostly seen on the Zapata Peninsula.** Cervera on April 30th, 1927, and a recent sighting (no photographs or video) in November 2014 by ornithologist Andy Mitchell and naturalist Angel Martinez. The wren comes in!

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

10,000 Birds

Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more And, in a strange way, it’s a book about hope. by Errol Fuller.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

So, the 49 subject species include birds with interesting family behaviors that we might not see every day (Cedar Waxwing, Great Blue Heron, Peregrine Falcon), migrant songbirds (Tree and Barn Swallows, House Wren), and common, everyday birds (Northern Cardinal, Downy Woodpecker, and, yes, Rock Pigeon). And another when that egg is removed.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. Tintaya’s woodpeckers also nicely feature tree (and cactus!) The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.). And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38