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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. “Wait!” ” you’re probably saying.

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Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Ecuador: Two WILDGuides Reviewed

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The Species Accounts tell us the birds’ stories, and a lot of information is packed into these paragraphs: appearance; age and gender differences in appearance; how the species differs from similar birds; interesting behavior or nesting notes; whether it is common or uncommon or rare; migratory or resident, breeding or nonbreeding in Kruger N.P.;

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species.

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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review

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And, Karlson himself has a section on gulls in his 2015 book (co-authored with Dale Rosselet) Bir ding by Impression. So, Laughing Gull is described in its Adult Breeding, Adult Nonbreeding, Immature, and Subadult forms; Western Gull is described in its Adult, Immature, and Subadult forms. These vary according to species.

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Guide to the Birds of Honduras: A Book Review

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A friend of 10,000 Birds, he talked to Corey about his mission to create this guide in 2012 and wrote about his goal to create a Spanish-language version of the guide in 2017. Guide to the Birds of Honduras was self-published in 2015, text by Gallardo and artwork by John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio, and Ian Griffiths. Species Accounts.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.

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The Australian Bird Guide: A Review

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The guide covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species. Within each group, birds in the same family are grouped together and birds in the same genus “usually occur consecutively.” So, there are two basic sections–marine and freshwater birds (pp.

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