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My Ten Best Birds of 2019

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I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Our family trip to Barbados was mostly about the beach but it was also chock full o’birds! Number 7 – Barbados Bullfinch. Happy New Year!

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Reflecting on a Year of Less Birding

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Marks National Wildlife Refuge replenished by naturalist spirit, but remained all I could manage. I am determined to instill the same love for the natural landscape in my friends and family, especially any new, tiny members. So cheers to 2020, and more birding adventures! Not so much. And the third trimester?

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

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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. But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. A scientific analysis of the bird family was written by Lloyd S. by Otto Plantema.

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Zone of Happiness Birding

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Currently he is the convenor for Birdlife Australia in his local area and, as that suggests, he loves sharing his passion for birds and all wildlife through outings and bird walks. The contributing or playing birders together produced photographic records for some 326 species [compared with 315 in 2019 and 318 in 2018]. Ken Cross].

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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Local farmers view it as a threat to domesticated wildlife. 2019), and now this book. We then switch to Andy McWilliam, a genial investigator with the National Wildlife Crime Unit, who combines the skill of a life doing police work with a deep appreciation for the importance of Great Britain’s wildlife laws.

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